THE EYE 3: INFINITY

Five friends on vacation in Thailand are having a great time between amusement parks, country trips, and dinners accompanied by ghost stories. One night, one of them shows the others a book he found in an old library; the book describes ten ways to summon ghosts. The friends decide to put into practice, one by one, the ten summonings, until one of them disappears. Several months pass, the friends have now returned to their daily lives, except for May, who has been traumatized by that night when her friend disappeared. However, it seems that the four friends have acquired the ability to see ghosts everywhere! Arrived at the third episode of their personal ghost saga, the Pang brothers decide to play the self-parody card, making not only the worst chapter of the trilogy, but also one of the most embarrassing ghost movies ever to come from the East. The point is that even starting from the basic idea, "The Eye 3" did not present itself as a winning product, the desire to insert pseudo-comic skits only worsens the situation, subtracting from the film not only credibility but also that shred of personality that the film could have gained by managing its characteristics in a more professional way. The Pang brothers have always demonstrated that they are high-level directors and capable of giving their works, often disappointing, technical and aesthetic qualities of great impact, capable of even re-evaluating entire films; unfortunately, however, in "The Eye 3" their characteristic technical expertise passes completely into the background. Here and there some qualitative flashes can be seen (the sequence of the meal offered to the ghosts is well made), but in general we are dealing with a product of very low quality, probably made only to exploit the good commercial success of the two previous chapters. The biggest problem with "The Eye 3" is the management of comic times alternated with tension mechanisms, because it fails to satisfy either aspect: the tension is completely non-existent and the numerous appearances of the ghosts almost never exploit their horrific potential; the ironic dimension is then of a uniquely embarrassing, capable of making the viewer really blush with shame. For the first time we will see one of the most original methods for scaring away ghosts, far from the proton beams of the legendary Ghostbusters! Here the ghosts are driven away with stinky farts that materialize to the human eye as real floating clouds! Not to mention the disarming scene in which two break-dance dancers mistake a boy possessed by a ghost for an expert in the aforementioned discipline, staging a real challenge to which several spectators also assist. Perhaps the only gag that really provokes a laugh, but still heavy and malicious, is the one in which the usual boy who asks for his report card appears (a ghostly figure present in the two previous films), here he is kicked and punched by the protagonist who thinks he is a ghost and instead… To all this is then added a story that is not at all interesting and poorly developed, disadvantaged by an amateurish screenplay that does not care at all about the characters and a cast of really unprofessional actors. In conclusion, "The Eye 3" is a film to be absolutely avoided, a mix between horror and slapstick comedy that fails to both scare and make you laugh. A film wrong from the start that has only managed to sink a saga that already had little to say.