My Little Eye Reviews

All I know is that it's like Big Brother with a killer in the mix. It also has Bradley Cooper before he became quite the household name. It has mixed reviews and ratings which is not a particularly good sign. Though at times I have been known to like stuff others don't and vice versa. I have never heard of the director Marc Evans. Apparently not many like his other movies all too much either. I have never heard of David Hilton either. James Watkins helps write here. You would know him from directing The Woman in Black as well as writing and directing Eden Lake. Both of which were excellent horrors. Anyways let us see if this is worth the watch.

The shots they use through this feel pretty odd. The timeline of the story is interesting. It seems to completely skip the first like 6 months they are there and just get to the last days where everything suddenly implodes. The weird thing is that it doesn't feel like that's the case besides some comments and I guess the situation with food. I kind of wish it did show the beginning and then moved along. This is definitely a slow burner so doing that would have been acceptable. It's possible that none of that would be interesting enough I guess, but it could have added to the characters. The deaths were a bit average except maybe two. There were some great twists and turns. The ending was pretty good and messed up.

The acting was a bit subpar. Kris Lemche and Bradley Cooper were the best things about the cast. Everyone else was either just average or kind of terrible. At least the characters had been fairly likable. Emma was the typical lead girl you would expect with very little to set her apart from characters of her type. If they had picked a few more good actors this may have been much better.

The camera style is pretty shotty. The way they capture some moments is just plain awful. The characters are fine, but most of the actors aren't all that great. Bradley Cooper and Kris Lemche were the saving grace. A few deaths and the twists also made this more enjoyable. It's a fairly average film with a very slow pace to it. It's at least a little enjoyable.

My Little Eye was directed by Marc Evans. I have learned that anyone who’s named Marc with a “c” is either useless, a douchebag, or bad at what they do. Since I don’t know Mr. Evans personally, we’re going to stick with the “bad at what they do” thing for him. The only noteworthy actor to show up in this film is Bradley Cooper, and he plays his role of being the jerk rather well. I won’t waste any more of your time going on about anyone else.

Even though this film is dated 2002, it feels much more like a 1998 kind of thing. Real World vs. Road Rules challenge, if you remember those lovely days of MTV. Five twenty-somethings volunteer their lives to be filmed and broadcast via the internets for one full year and if no one leaves, they all receive one million dollars. You’re not allowed to break curfew, call for help, call the cops or leave. Uhh, okay.

As they get to know each other and their fucked up pasts (of which only two out of five contestants actually reveal), those fears start to show up in care packages and lurk around corners and bedrooms at night. Cooper’s character shows up in the middle of the night in the midst of all of this. He tells them he’s a computer programmer and has never heard of their site with as much time as he spends on the internet, and that this is all some sort of weird hoax. He then fucks the easy girl, leaves and people start dying.

The cops show up thanks to a flare they set off on the roof, but by the time they get there, there’s only two survivors. The not so easy girl and the guy who was in on the whole thing and is responsible for the deaths of the other three. Also, the cop is in on it, too. Surprised?

This is most definitely a time specific film, and I believe it was made right on the cusp of the relevancy cut off point. Maybe it’s just that I hate reality television and can’t even bring myself to pay for cable. I’m not sure. Reality television isn’t a real thing anymore, is it?

This movie feels like it came out of the 90’s, too. The actors look like they could have been exchanged for any one of the extras we saw in “Scream.” It was all terribly predictable and the element of surprise was nonexistent. If you somehow get stuck in a time warp and can go back a decade in a half and just so happen to own this piece of crap, bring it with you and take it to a thirteen year old girl who babysits for movie money. She’ll love it.

My official rating: *