The Sight (2000)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Excellent adaptation.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A movie made for TV that was clearly meant to be a pilot for an on-going series. But as it often goes with made-for-TV pilots, the series never happened. A shame, really, as 'The Sight' shows good potential and the film is well-executed on all levels. 'The Sight' offers a bit of a strange mixture of mystery, thriller, horror & a touch of comedy. But somehow it works quite well. Pretty stylish too. Maybe nothing too special in general and it feels a bit too artificial at times. But as it hints at, a TV-series could have taken an interesting route with the material offered. The protagonist is a guy who inherits the ability to communicate with ghosts. Him and the ghosts end up working together to identify (and possibly defeat?) a serial killer. Just seek out a copy and watch the rest for yourself. Director at the helm of this project is Paul W.S. Anderson, who has a nice track record when it comes to science fiction & horror movies. On his filmography you'll find some quality genre entertainment like 'Event Horizon', 'Soldier' and some of the 'Resident Evil' films. 'The Sight' makes up for a nice addition and somewhat of a different kind of movie than what we're used to coming from Mr. Anderson.

Seeing this moving was marketed in 2000, was awestruck at one particular images that flashed at the end of the movie. It was the image of the NYC World Trade Center Twin Towers. The picture only flashed for only seconds on the screen, at the end of the movie. I wondered if anyone else caught that image? It made me wonder if the movie had been re-edited at a later date. I don't believe that was the case. It was just a very eerie, premonition, that left me feeling a bit unsettled for a few moments after the movie. I then scrambled to see what year it was filmed as the credits rolled, and felt goose pimples when I read the year was 2000; and the movie had not been made, post 9/11.

I watched this movie purely by accident - as it turned out, it was the best accident I ever made. The Sight is a refreshing TV movie about an American architect working on a hotel in England who discovers that he has 'the sight'. In other words, the abilty to see dead people. Yes, this ground has been covered with the slightly more well known movie - The Sixth Sense. I consider the Sixth Sense to be one of my favourite movies, though it has to take a back seat to The Sight. The Sight has a superb blend of creepiness, suspense and light-heartness that delievers a great final package, plus it includes an ending that will have you thinking at the end. Brilliant Movie that I'm dying to see again. 9/10

I absolutely loved this. I thought the performances were fantastic and I loved the concept and the script. In my opinion this may have been a rip off of 'The Sixth Sense' but at least this had some level of charm (way off the scale). The only thing that puzzled me were the constant references to 'Alice in Wonderland'. I didn't get that. Am I being thick or was any one else puzzled? Any way, this was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed this and cannot wait to see it again. Andrew McCarthy and Honor Blackman head a immensely talented cast. There was not, in my opinion, a single bad performance in this film.If you ever get the chance to watch this, either for the first time or again, TAKE THE CHANCE!!!