MOVIE REVIEW: The 3rd Eye

RELEASE DATE:  November 30th 2017 (Indonesia)

RUN TIME: 1 HOUR 47 MINS

MPAA RATING: MA-TV

MY IMDB RATING: 4.5

DIRECTOR:  Rocky Soraya

MAIN CAST: Jessica Mila, Bianca Hello, Denny Sumargo

IMDB Story Line



Alia decides to leave Bangkok and return to Jakarta once after her parents died. She and Abel, her teenage sister, moved into their childhood home away from the city. But Abel, who was often strange and frightened, disliked the house. She said there was something else besides them. Alia and Davin, Alia's boyfriend who accompanied Alia, were ignore everything which Abel said. But Abel's attitude is getting worse. Feel she must to help Abel, Alia intends to take Abel to a psychiatrist. But Abel refuses and she says that she can see those who are already dead because her third eye has been open since childhood. Abel invites Alia to see Mrs. Windu, a psychic who has been always helping Abel. Want to prove all the things that make no sense to this, Alia asked Mrs. Windu to open her third eye. And slowly, Alia began to experience unusual events. She began to see skmething that no one else could see, and the presence of ghosts who asked her help. But them who were appears at Alia's house hurt her. Their energy is so negative that it can harm Alia and Abel. Without any other place for them to stay, they are forced to stay there and ask Mrs. Windu's help. Can Mrs. Windu help them?


MY REVIEW:


On Netflix this movie is called The 3rd Eye, but the Indonesia title is Mata Batin and it was released in the USA in 2018. The movie has several cheap thrills that will make you jump and then becomes a confusing mess of everything. While the special effects where high school student level, the story line was strong in the first half. Then it went down hill. I thought the acting was ok but could have been better. I found a fan review page where people just hated this movie, but I think it's ok for a cheap Halloween scare, but this movie will not be in my movie collection unless it's a gift and then I will be trading it in.


However it's not bad enough to keep me away from the director or the actors in other movies, in my opinion this could have been done much better with the crew it had. I can't say I hated it or liked it because it did entertain me for the 1 hour and 47 minutes. I gave this a weak 4.5 just to be nice, because it was not the worse movie I had ever seen.