Eye For An Eye: A Movie Review
“Eye For An Eye”: A Movie Review
The intrigue in the movie “Eye For An Eye” isn’t in who committed the crime (that is revealed fairly early) or in how the assailant gets off the hook, but rather in how the mother navigates a failed legal system to ultimately make it work for her. This is a thinking woman’s film. Sally Field turns in a gritty performance as the avenging mother and Kieffer Sutherland, in his pre-“24” days, delivers a particularly loathsome, if one-dimensional, villain. Ed Harris does a journeyman performance as the stepfather reluctant to buck the system and Joe Montegna, as the savvy but not very effective investigator, and Armin Shimmerman, as a crime-weary, by-the-book judge, support the main cast.
The film bolts out of the gate with a scene straight out of every mother’s nightmares and soon puts the mother in the impossible position of knowing the identity of her daughter’s killer but not having justice done. Just when it appears she has a plan that will work, she has to break off, and her try for justice seems to hit a dead end. But not so. She’s not done. At some risk to herself she then plots a solution that technically stays within the law, but the question is: Can she pull it off? The action in “Eye For An Eye” is nowhere near as visceral and bloody as the action in Kevin Bacon’s 2007 film “Death Sentence”, but it is more realistic and is, in its own way, just as satisfying.
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