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Did you commit a crime? Don't expect pity!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 09/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This painful and terribly touching thriller establishes an automatic solidarity between the wounded mother and the viewer when her daughter was the victim of a psycho killer in a real living nightmare; in the middle of an infernal traffic through the cell phone she is the witness of the facts in full development.
This emotional fissure will increase as true emotive barrier among the members of her family. The sad memories, the "Teddy Bear" and above all, the main concern about the deserved punishment on this abominable and nasty killer.
But sometimes the guilty murder gets infiltrate through the holes of the justice's spider web and obtains the freedom due the lack of conclusive evidences.
Just in this state of things, the human chase will revert. She will follow him and even will invade the intimacy of his room, and will find a small community of people who suffered similar damages.
Passionate thriller supported by the always talented Sally Field and the overwhelming performance of Kiefer Sutherland as the nasty psychotic.
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PURE EVIL AT IT'S FINEST!!!!!

vincent r meglis | lakewood, nj United States | 05/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow, Kiefer Sutherland delivers one of the most powerful performances ever to come to the big screen. I always loved Kiefer's films, and always thought he played a great villan. Freeway, A Time To Kill, and even in A Few Good Men he played a nasty s.o.b., but never had I seen him this downright horrible. He is such a brilliant actor and can play a wide range of characters(as we have seen in the tv show 24). Kiefer plays Robert Doob in the film Eye For An Eye, a white trash serial rapist who prays on women of all ages. Doob is a truely evil person and has no conscience what so ever, which makes him all the more scary. The movie opens with us being introduced to the McCann family. Karen(Sally Field) and Mack(Ed Harris) live in a big house with their two daughters Julie(Olivia Burnette) and Ashley. They are getting the house ready for Ashley's birthday party. Julie is left alone in the house and is putting up decorations, when Karen calls. Karen tells her that she is going to be late because she is stuck in traffic. Then the doorbell rings, and Julie tells her mom to hold on and opens the door. The scene that follows is quite upsetting, and is where we are introduced to Robert Doob. Doob brutally attacks Julie while Karen is still on the phone and can hear everything. The physical violence isn't that bad since the scene jumps around a lot, but the emotional tension is unbearable. I think that the helpless feeling Karen experiences as she runs up to every car around her to ask for help, and for someone to call the police, is what hits us the hardest. The vision of the balloons floating away from inside Karens car, out the open door, then to the sky, while Doob is raping and killing the helpless girl is, in my opinion, a subliminal reference to the end of innocence and the loss of life. It is something that you won't soon forget. The story moves foward to an investigation of the crime by Det. Denillo(Joe Mantegna), as Karen and Max try to deal with what has happened. The Det. calls them one morning and tells them they have a suspect in custody, Robert Doob. But when he goes to trial, he is dismissed on an error of the state. But before he leaves the courtroom, he assures the McCann's that he is definately responsable by mimicing their daughter's stutter saying, sasasasa...sorry. After that, Karen becomes obsessed with catching him in another crime so he could finally be brought to justice. She begins to follow him, and at one point see's him peeping on a lady and urinating on her lawn. She goes to the Det. to tell him that they have to pick this guy up, but the Det. tells her to stay away from Robert Doob and that there is nothing they can do right now. Karen then seeks help from a couple men at her counciling sessions. They are a vigilante group that takes justice into their own hands, when the system fails to. They teach Karen to shoot a gun and set up the hit for her, but she has to pull the trigger herself. At first she says she can do it, but then she backs out when she finds out that a friend of hers at the meetings is really a undercover FBI agent investigating vigilante activity. Then she finds out that Robert Doob has been talking to her other daughter Ashley. She goes to his apartment to send a message and finds a ceramic cookie that Ashley had made at school in his dresser. So she trashes his apartment in an attempt to lure him to her house for a final showdown. I won't tell you how the movie ends, you have to see it for yourself. I didn't mention Ed Harris much because he really has a small role in the film, although he does a great job with the parts he has. Everyone in this movie is excellent, even Beverly D'Angelo who plays Dolly Green, Karen's friend at her job, is great. I hope to see more of Kiefer Sutherland playing nasty roles like this in the future, he really was one of the most heartless characters I have ever seen..."