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THE EYE

Where do they get these ideas? Recently, it seems, concepts have been migrating from American genre movies to Asia, where they get rejiggered into Asian genre movies and then get remade back in the States as hits. Case in point: The Ring. Future case in point: The Eye, from hip Hong Kong directors Oxide and Danny Pang, which steals from the top shelf (Persona, Repulsion) during the opening credits, then settles for less classy fare (The Dead Zone, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Mothman Prophecies, and, of course, The Sixth Sense). Blind, waifish Mun (Lee Sin-Je) has gotten a corneal transplant and can see again, but she’s seeing dead people. At first skeptical, then smitten, her handsome shrink, Dr. Lo (Lawrence Chou), decides that they have to track down the donor. An almost ingenuous combination of the mawkish, the lurid, and the trite, with its gratuitously arty editing and photography and godawful kitschy score, The Eye is ripe for a remake. (99 minutes)

BY PETER KEOUGH

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