Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anything, Michael Apted's "Blink" is pretty damn scary. Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody, a woman who receives a cornea transplant after twenty years of blindness only to witness a murder, In a new twist on the "blind-women erotic thriller," hallucinations plague Emma as a result of the surgery. Emma's eyes and brain, so unused to processing sight, replay images long after she has actually seen them. Director Apted and script writer Dana Stevens milk this replay mechanism dry in the name of frightening their audience, The only images that pop up on emma are horrible ones...
...remainder of "Blink" undermines this interesting premise by resorting to typical thriller genre stupidity. For example, Emma exacerbates her situation by acting as no sane murder Witness would. She continues to live alone in a darkened apartment in a seedy neighborhood, foolhardily opting to elude the cops who are assigned to guard her so that she can traipse through the Chicago night by herself...
...shenanigans continue as Emma, in a scene that appears to be borrowed from "The Fugitive," disappears from her police protection during the St. Patrick's Days parade. It's hard to shake the idea that a great deal of "Blink" is lifted from other films. Take "Blink's most recent predecessor, "Jennifer 8," for example, which recounts the same tale, but with better acting. Uma Thurman's cross-eyed, blank gaze and way of seeing right through people outclass Stowe's blind woman rendition. Since Stowe can't get the right look in her eyes, she distracts our attention...
Although one expects a certain amount of implausibility from thrillers, the gaffes in "Blink" point to a general sloppiness on the part of the film makers. Within a period of a couple of days, the characters attend a Bulls game, the St. Patrick's Day parade, and a Cubs game, even though the spring baseball season doesn't being until April...
Madeleine Stowe is sharp as a laser in Blink...