Eye for an Eye (1996)

It sounded interesting when I first heard about the premise.. but I think I just wasted my time on seeing this. I never got to feel the pain from their parents, maybe the actors just didnt realized they where in a drama and not a comedy, IS SHE SMILING IN HER DAUGHTER'S FUNERAL? And I'm not talking about the scene where she has an episode and she starts to laugh like she just heard a bad joke and its pretending to laugh sarcastically, she just looked very cheerful talking to everyone at the funeral. But seriously what's with the actors? The only ones who act nicely are the two raped girls :/ The villian is so stupid I cant even describe it The cops.. omg.. are they trying to make fbi look stupid? They nailed it. This movie should have been done, Its very slow, dumb and unpleasant. If my daughter was killed in that way and her killer was set free and after my other little girl I would have made a freaking diasaster everywhere I swear.. Nobody would be this calm.

The premise of the film - a victim's family-member takes revenge - has been done and done better: think Charles Bronson. What makes this film different is that we have a woman in the Bronson role. Not merely a woman but the pixie-like Sally Field. She goers from pixie to prize-fighter in no time, from never having held a gun to scoring high in her test-shoot in no time as well. Ed Harris truly did phone in his role as her husband. Keifer Sutherland, however, is quite good as the perpetrator / rapist / killer; there is something all too real in the way his lip curls into a snarl. The last 15 minutes of the film are positively awful; as though its intent was to fool the viewer. A waste.

First of all I cannot believe this movie has an overall rating of 6.1 on IMDb. This is by far one of the best films I have ever seen. I came across it on my Netflix account one night and decided to give it a whirl. WOW. I hate those movies where you waste the first half waiting for it to get to the point. This one however wasted no time at all. Within the first ten minutes the shocking rape scene was happening and needless to say the acting was outstanding from every character! From then on I was hooked on this film, and I knew that the rest of it was going to be an intense journey. The way the mother reacts to the situation was spot on and I felt for her throughout the whole movie. It's a great but chilling story about justice, and revenge. Every character performed fantastic and there were moments where I felt sick to my stomach with the villain. To say it's not a horror movie, to me it was terrifying and it's safe to say ill never answer my door again! Nowadays movies like this are full of tacky lines and pathetic acting. This one keeps it very real and quite traumatising. Well done!

You know, as a law school student just about to become a lawyer, I'm much aware of the problems that making justice by yourself can cause to a whole society. That being said, I imagined this movie would try to justify the unjustifiable, but it surprisingly goes in a different direction. The victim's mother becomes obsessive after her daughter gets murdered, but the film never wants to show that she could just murder the bad guy and get easily away with murder. That proves this movie isn't cheesy or formulaic, as I was expecting. The family portrayed in here is very believable and likable, thanks to a great performance made by the three of them-- with highlights to Sally Field, who had an unintentionally funny scene when she swears at the sheriff. Also, directing is professional, doing just like many suspenseful thrillers from the nineties have done. The plot is coherent and well developed, allowing the spectator to understand why the characters were doing what they did, leaving almost no space for doubts. Kiefer Sutherland surely had no hard time on portraying such character, given he did a lot of psychos in the past. All in all, "Eye for an Eye" proves to be a mature film that many of you might enjoy. Recommended.