I’m usually a huge fan of Danny & Oxide Pang’s films but THE EYE 3 is one of their most incompetent films bordering on ludicrous drivel that should have never been committed to celluloid. I don’t blame this on the cast because if this was meant to be a comedy instead of a horror film then the Pang’s outdid themselves. Where the first two films presented audiences with disturbing ghost stories (the first film recently having its own Americanized remake with Jessica Alba), this film is nothing short of wasteful trash.
The film concerns a group of friends who find themselves visiting a friend’s home in Thailand where they play a game which will allow them to see ghosts. Sounds like an interesting idea for a film but the ways in which they play the game is what makes the film so ludicrous. One of the games has them bending over frontwards and looking between their legs to see ghosts while another one has them trying to give food to the ghosts while also banging on empty bowls. It’s nothing short of laughable, so, much so that it almost found myself taking the film out to get away from it.
Most of the Pang’s career consists of ghost stories which they tend to excel at only in this film it seemed as if they were trying to just grab another paycheck (king of like them remaking their own film BANGKOK DANGEROUS for the American market). It’s hard to recommend this film to people other then fans of the Pang brothers…then again I don’t recommend it fans either as it rarely ever feels like a Pang brothers film.
Just skip this movie. See one of the first two films again. You’ll be glad I warned you.
The film concerns a group of friends who find themselves visiting a friend’s home in Thailand where they play a game which will allow them to see ghosts. Sounds like an interesting idea for a film but the ways in which they play the game is what makes the film so ludicrous. One of the games has them bending over frontwards and looking between their legs to see ghosts while another one has them trying to give food to the ghosts while also banging on empty bowls. It’s nothing short of laughable, so, much so that it almost found myself taking the film out to get away from it.
Most of the Pang’s career consists of ghost stories which they tend to excel at only in this film it seemed as if they were trying to just grab another paycheck (king of like them remaking their own film BANGKOK DANGEROUS for the American market). It’s hard to recommend this film to people other then fans of the Pang brothers…then again I don’t recommend it fans either as it rarely ever feels like a Pang brothers film.
Just skip this movie. See one of the first two films again. You’ll be glad I warned you.
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