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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 is excellent in the roll of a woman blinded when she was six who receives an operation that restores her sight but leaves her in a blurred world. She is pursued by a misguided person that seeks to take away her eyes because the cornea was from a young woman he admired. The music of the "Drovers" is most appealing for the type of story being portrayed. I would certainly buy this again if it is issued in DVD format.

Emma is a girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered, she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.... It's not a surprise that this didn't make much of an impact when released. These sort of thrillers were released every other month in the nineties, bu the inclusion of eye surgery is surely a novelty. It is, but thats where all the novel ideas end. We have Aiden Quinn, the lead detective, and guess who he ends up with? Stowe has a guide dog, guess what happens to it? And so on and so on. There is a little bit of a twist come the end, but it doesn't really matter, all the blanks are filled in and it doesn't really bother the grey matter. Stowe is good in her role, and it has to be her best performance, its a shame she never really picked up better scripts, could she really has screen presence. See it if you like thrillers, you don't expect to be surprised too much...