The Eye (
Ewan McGregor) is a lonely, isolated British intelligence agent who has lost his wife and daughter, for which he blames his own unforgivable inaction. Yet detachment is part of the job. His current mission is to track Joanna Eris (
Ashley Judd), a woman suspected of blackmailing the son of a senior British official.
But Eris is far more than a blackmailer. She is a seductive, shadowy master of disguises, a frenzied murderer, a lost orphan and an abject mystery whose rage is as fierce as her beauty.
The Eye cannot help but be fascinated by Joanna - especially when a surveillance photo of her seems to reveal the ghostly image of his long-lost daughter, whose absence haunts him. In his deepest fantasies, their two fates as lost souls are somehow connected. The more The Eye follows Joanna from murder to murder, the more he needs to watch her. Not capture her. Not speak to her. But watch her, becoming inexorably more and more obsessed with what he sees. He shadows Joanna without ever letting her know he is there - except that sometimes unexpected turns of fate make it seem as if she has a guardian angel watching over her.
But the closer The Eye gets to Joanna's life, the more dangerous his fantasy becomes. Soon he begins to meddle in her existence, taking action, altering her fate. Yet to catch her would be to lose her, something The Eye cannot allow again in his life. So the odyssey continues . . . until the pursuer and the pursued find themselves on a perilous crash course.
A case of following your destiny without knowing why.
It was too removed from it`s audience and tending to alientate at times with plots and twists that didn`t make sense.Why did his imaginary daughter dissapear completely, why did he fall in love with a serial killer? how could he move all his survelliance equipment so quickly while chasing her from state to state? why did he beat up the blind guy??! really bad and Ewan McGregor should know better!
Inconsistent and illogical event sequences, weak characters, poor storyline. Ashley Judd is amazing but the character she represents and the flimsy, unrealistic story don`t allow her to shine.