santiagocosme
I don't wish I was blind because that would be an overstatement, but deep down I feel that it would have been better than watching this monstrous horror of a movie. A blind man who tries to find love by faking that he actually can see. Obviously, the guy is so good at faking it and girls are so dumb that no one actually notices that the guy is totally blinded. Meanwhile, his brother tries to set him up with hookers who are super hot, and he gets upset cause he only wants to find true love. Will he find it? Well, do I really need to answer this question. What do you think? How does the heroe of a movie like this ends up? Marrying a lovely girl or forever alone? Exactly. This movie is punishing. It's worse than door to door selling and getting each potential customer slamming the door on your face. The worst thing is that I watched it right after "40 year old Virgin". As I look back I wonder what the hell did I do to inflict so much pain on myself.
SnoopyStyle
Danny Valdessecchi (Chris Pine) is blind and everybody likes him. Girls think he's hot and his psychiatrist Dr. Evans (Jane Seymour) can't stop stripping in front of him. His inappropriate limo-driving brother Larry (Eddie Kaye Thomas) keeps trying to set him up to lose his virginity. He volunteers for experimental brain surgery to regain his eyesight. Leeza (Anjali Jay) is the new receptionist at the medical office. She has been promised to a traditional East Indian arranged marriage.Chris Pine is an appealing photogenic guy. Brother Larry and the various girls seem to be trying for a wacky comedy. It's not done that well but it looks worst next to the humorless Leeza. There is next-to-no chemistry between her and Danny. She might as well be in another movie from a stripping Jane Seymour. This movie has split personality and they don't get along. Instead of trying to give Leeza her own dramatic story, the movie should try harder to incorporate her into his drama and give her some fun.
Danielle
I really wanted to like this movie. Chris Pine is adorable and gives an appealing performance as a blind man looking for love. It's such a compelling story - how can you not root for this guy? But the movie doesn't know how to pick a tone! First, it's a raunchy, sexed-up comedy, with Danny's therapist stripping down to her underwear for no discernible reason and one of his blind dates pushing his face into her breasts and another doing a completely unsexy strip tease, which, of course, he can't see. Meanwhile, he's fallen in love with the lovely receptionist at his doctor's office, where he is contemplating an experimental surgery to partially restore his sight. It's like there were two movies that got crammed into one. The first is aimed at teenage boys and the other is aimed at people like me, who actually like movies about real people and real emotions. If you can ignore the sophomoric stuff, it's not a bad romance. And I guess if you just came for the breasts, there's enough of those for you. But it could have been a far better movie if they had just decided which one they wanted to make.
spenycjo
This movie is a humorous, moving little jewel. There's not a sentimental or maudlin moment in it, the cast is terrific, the performances and direction nuanced...and the script is *archetypal*, not "clichéd". It's a hero's journey in miniature. With jokes! What it is not is a pandering teen flick, any more than Chris Pine is a teen idol. I'm agog at some of the reviews here. I rented this movie because Chris Pine is so fabulous as Kirk that I wanted to see him in other performances.I saw some very subtle echoes of Wm Shatner in Pine's Star Trek performance that apparently others didn't, so I wanted to see him in other roles to gauge what he was doing on purpose and what might simply be aspects of himself that coincidentally resembled Shatner.Well, the man's an actor; there's no Kirk in this movie. I am so delighted and cannot wait to see the next Star Trek flick, and anything else Chris Pine does.
AD
