Blink (1994)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is one of those movies that works if you don't take five minutes to think about it. It all starts with the condition that she has. At best, this stretches the bounds of reality. For the retina to replace the faces of those encountered with those encountered at a previous time is absurd. Chances are those faces would appear above a fireplace or on a sidewalk. There were these transitional scenes where a face would morph into the bad guy and back to a policeman or something. This young woman should have had an incredible amount of therapy, both physical and psychological to deal with here environment. All that aside, the whole thing is hard to swallow. Quinn's character is such an ass. He dismisses her so quickly. She was right to take on the police because they are utterly incompetent. But why this guy gets a chance, I don't know. I guess she and love are both blind. Anyway, enough said. I felt that this is one of those movies where the writer said, "Let's see. If there was this woman who had this eye condition (which I just read about in Reader's Digest, what could happen to her? It's just that at that point it's about an abusive romance and not much else.

Madeline Stowe of "The Last of the Mohicans" fame stars in BLINK as a feisty musician who undergoes a new type of eye surgery to restore her vision, lost in childhood at the hands of an abusive mom. As her vision slowly returns, she runs afoul of a killer who is convinced she has gotten a good look at him, and is now after her. She tells the cops, who not surprisingly laugh at her. The irony is, she only sees the killer in a sort of surreal way, with the camera serving as Stowe's vision and showing us what amounts to little more than phantasms. She also suffers from mental time gaps with her returning vision. Stowe ends up falling for burly cop Aidan Quinn, who decides she's telling the truth and protects her. There's a nice trick at the very end involving the killer. Suspenseful and stylish for its time, with a thoughtful performance by Stowe.

Committed playing to the gallery from some standard 90s favourites, but not enough to save this film. I was rather hoodwinked by the trailer which looked good. In fact the movie is a thin, generic thriller with an afterthought subplot of an affair.Aidan Quinn gets some good buddy support but that cop ensemble doesn't reach beyond its precinct. Quinn and Stowe are perfectly capable of making something of their scenes but said scenes are too closely proscribed and might as well have been played by body doubles. And those who can't see the twist coming should invest in the featured surgery. 3/10

..irrational, illogical behavior (running away from your police escort while being stalked by a killer ring a bell, anyone?-) and general foolishness. I first thought I'd not watch this but then I read a positive comment on the movie here on IMDb which claimed that though this might mostly be a pretty average movie there also was something special about it. Well, to me this felt pretty much the usual cannon fodder.I think this could have been a decent movie. The basic plot is OK. However, they didn't make it so, but instead so-so, so towards the end of the movie the only thing that kept me watching this was that I wanted to see how badly it would stall, hoping that that it would get bad enough to be actually funny. It didn't. Instead it had some filler arguments which I particularly hate in a movie (you know those scenes where two or more previously rationally behaving people suddenly start behaving like they have PMS).Not good enough to enjoy and not really bad enough to be campy. IMO a waste of time.My voting history should be available here:http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=10127200