I couldn’t quite remember the original Asian version of this except that I loved it, though bits and pieces came back to me as I watched this remake. Oddly, though this is to me as good a remake as The Departed or Dark Water (okay, I haven’t seen the original of the latter yet; what I’m saying is they’re good movies, great movies), I can still see myself watching the original again more readily. But for what it is, this is perfectly gripping. Jessica Alba’s performance is at turns surprisingly naked (not like that, perv) and she does the blind thing better than expected. Parker Posey is wonderfully cast as her sister. The ending absolutely made me sit up in the same way I remember the original doing, and I think anyone who hasn’t ever heard of it before will be in for a pleasantly thrilling surprise.

A purely average movie, unless, like me, you love both Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. Val Kilmer has done blockbusters in Batman Forever, biographical imitation in The Doors, movie-stealing cameo in True Romance, and now, he does the crippling disability thing in At First Sight. He plays blind perfectly, and then there’s the addition of him regaining his sight, all done as realistically as can be imagined. He is a fabulous actor… he just needs to bring all the great aspects of these different performances somehow together one day. The movie is a little long, but overall, I enjoyed it.