Eye for an Eye | | Cast : | Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland | | Director : | John Schlesinger | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 12, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | August 19, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | fantastic film | Content
 | i absolutely love this film, it's fantastic. Kiefer Sutherland plays a brilliant bad guy and shows us that he has the talent to switch roles. He is pure evil in this film but in my opinion he's brilliant. Sally Field plays a very moving part and plays the part of the grieving mother amazingly. The rape scenes are very brutal but the film itself raises very important issues of parental grieving and the demand for justice. One of my favourite films yet. Definitely worth a watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 30, 2005 | | Summary | i loved it | Content
| well ,,, since i`m not an english person ... all i can say is the movie was awsome ... a really true emotional story ... i never regret purchasing it ..... |
| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2005 | | Summary | Eye For An Eye (1996) | Content
| Over the 90s, since 1993's THE VANISHING & THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Kiefer had starred in many movies that did not do well at all. In 1996, Kiefer returned to the silver screen, starring in the role that chilled me to the very bone: EYE FOR AN EYE, co-starring Sally Field, Ed Harris, Joe Montegna, & Beverly D'Angelo.
KAREN McCANN (played by Sally Field) is a happy woman with her 17-year-old daughter named JULIE (played by Olivia Burnette) and an 8-year-old daughter named MEGAN (played by Alexandra Kyle). Karen is married to MACK McCANN, her second marriage, making Julie the stepdaughter of Mack. It is Megan's birthday. While Karen is on her way home from work. She stops at a balloon shop to pick balloons for Megan's birthday and drives on her way into a huge traffic jam. While stuck in the jam, Karen calls home and finds that Julie is home early, trying to help out with the party decorations. Karen and Julie talk until they are interrupted by Julie having to answer the door, after someone rings the doorbell. Suddenly, someone busts into the house and begins beating on Julie. Karen jumps out of her car and screams for someone to call 911 as she tries to stay on the line with Julie. This man rapes Julie, then picks up a shattered piece of an ice sculpture and smashes it over Julie's face, killing her.
Karen enters a deep depression and paranoia. Karen is now experiencing what no parent wants to ever experience. SGT. DENILLO (played by Joe Montegna), who is also a Detective, is on the hunt for Julie's killer. He even recommends that Mack and Karen go to a group for parents who have lost their children. Denillo contacts Karen and informs her that they've caught a matching suspect, after doing a DNA test on Julie's body. The suspect is ROBERT DOOB (played by Kiefer Sutherland). He is held in custody, but he is released on a technicality. Justice sucks, doesn't it?
Karen knows Robert is the one and he is getting away free. She begins following him and spying on him. Robert works at the supermarket as a delivery boy. He frequently delivers groceries to a Spanish woman, so Karen follows him the delivery. He hands the Latino lady her groceries and pisses on her house, sort of marking his territory, making note of his next supposed victim.
Over the course of the next three weeks, Karen begins taking self-defense classes as well as learning how to shoot a gun, but she drops out after realizing that tracking down Robert and shooting him like this is not self-defense, but premedatated murder.
Karen then finds out that Robert has now killed his Spanish customer and is being held for 48 hours and is being released. Karen wants Robert dead. She wants him to pay for the lives of her daughter and that Spanish woman. Knowing she can't kill him just like that, she figures out another way. As Mack and Megan head off to a vacation spot, where Karen will be heading up in a day or so, Karen enters Robert's appartment and ransacks the place. Robert finds the place a mess and realizes that Karen is responsible.
Karen is in the shower, not knowing that Robert has now entered her house, ready to murder her as he did her daughter. He opens the shower curtain, to find the shower empty and Karen behind him. They have a short-lived brawl, ending with Karen shooting and killing Robert in self-defense, since he did break-in with the intentions of harming and killing Karen.
Now, as I said many times before, Kiefer Sutherland is my favorite actor. His portrayal of Robert Doob in this film was seriously terrifying. I'm not kidding. Everytime I watch this film, I have to leave the room when Kiefer's scenes come up, since he scared the sh*t out of me in this movie. That only goes to show how amazing of an actor Kiefer is. Another amazing thing about Kiefer is that his appearance in this movie made him look like another celebrity: JAMES HETFIELD, Lead singer of the Heavy Metal band, METALLICA. He seriously looked like James of METALLICA. I would know since I am both a huge fan of Kiefer and METALLICA. Sally Field is a very good actress and she displays it her. This is a movie no one should miss. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 29, 2005 | | Summary | Great Kiefer Sutherland movie | Content
| Adding to other positive comments about this crime-suspense-thriller, Kiefer's performance as a psychopath going about living his daily life is so powerful it would have worked as a seperate movie in itself. Even just on screen, you can tell there's an aura of intensity surrounding this guy. I haven't seen this movie in several years, but recall almost every scene, and every time I see other work by Kiefer I'm reminded of the intensity of this "younger" character, as if the current Kiefer on "24" is just an older, and much more moral, version. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 27, 2005 | | Summary | Realistic, entertaining, and underated | Content
| After seeing the movie ENOUGH, one might presume that Enough copied Eye For An Eye. Both are different stories, but both reflect the realty of our justice system failing to protect the innocent and convict a psychopath. "We can't do anything unless "he"(Keifer)" does something else. And even when he does commit rape and murder again, he is still a free man due to lack of evidence. I think forensic technology has come a long way since this movie was made, but the justice system hasn't changed much. I highly disagree with what one reviewer said about the film about a woman unjustly killing a man. First off, they say if you sell drugs once and only once or if it's your last time, or if someone convinced you, it doesn't matter, you're still guilty of the crime and you are labeled a DEALER. You're responsible for your own actions. Keifer breaks into Sally Field's house at the end with intent to do her bodily harm. The fact that she provoked him, or made him angry by trashing his house and leaving her hat on purpose is irrelevant. There is so such law that states, if a person is provoked can come and kill you justifiably. She had every right in the world to kill him. It was still self defense. But the revenge motive is where it gets tricky. We all would agree with her. He raped and killed her daughter and got away with it, as well as another woman. He was a unremorseful pyschopath who needed to be locked up or killed. But the fact that she planned it, as messed up as our judicial system is, wouldnt care what he did to her daughter. But once again, no one can make you do anything. He broke into her house and she defended herself. I'm sure the law would not recommend that everyone pulls a stunt like this when the justice system fails you. To take the law into your owns hands is merely a risk on your own freedom. But we must remember it's just a movie.
My only critism is there is a little bit of what is called OVER-ACTING in which we all know Sally Field is known for I.E.(Soapdish)But the thing is, she is one of very few actresses that can get away with it. It isnt at all like Jennifer Lopez's horrible wanna be actress, make you ashamed you spent the money to see such a hideous performance, type of over acting. Sally DOES know how to act, she is talented, and knows how to go all the way with her emotions. Another example is when she finds out her ex husband is the maid (Mrs. Doubtfire) and she is first in shock, then it turns to anger, and then acceptance. The director left it in, because even though it was a little over the top, she was brilliant. I mean, it isnt an everyday situation you find out your ex dressed up as a woman to be the nanny for your kids. |
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