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No, you’re not in a time warp reading about a Jessica Alba sequel that won’t be made until 2012 (if ever). You see, The Eye may be familiar to US audiences as an Alba vehicle, but over in Korea, hot-shot Asian directors The Pang Brothers have already turned the movie into a somewhat successful series, of which The Eye 3 is only the most recent installment.

While the Pang Brothers’ version of The Eye and its American remake are similar, The Eye 3 may lead some viewers unfamiliar with the Korean original films a bit disoriented. By the third movie, gone is the concept of seeing ghosts because of a corneal transplant (The Eye) or because you attempted suicide while pregnant (The Eye 2), and instead, it is merely the challenge of getting to see the dead that drives the series forward.

Much like The Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows, the action of The Eye 3 focuses on a group of college students who, one somewhat inebriated night, decide they want to see ghosts. One of them has a list of methods, which includes corneal transplants and the suicide-while-pregnant thing, as a bow and a nod to the first two films, but then start listing odder methods that are less drastic, like banging chopsticks on noodle bowls to get the “hungry ghosts” to come out and play.

Of course, there are risks in seeking out the undead, and it goes well beyond the one drunken night, as these foolish kids soon learn. You can guess at how the plot unfolds from there, because spoilers end now on this one.

To be honest, the third movie is already beginning to stretch the core concept to the point of no return and personally, I felt The Eye 3 jumped the shark a bit; what’s next, being able to see ghosts via the use of a Canon Powershot? Wait, no… that’s Fatal Frame. Kinda.

Played for more comedy than the previous installments, The Eye 3 his some fun, mind-bending moments, but is scarce on the genuine chills. Although it delivers a PG-13-level thriller as the previous two installments did, this one just falls flat, and the special features are minimal, although there are English subtitles, thankfully, to help those of us who don’t speak Korean.

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