Blink

REVIEW
Stowe gives a splendid performance as a gutsy but vulnerable folk musician, blind since childhood, who regains her vision just in time to witness a murderer fleeing the scene of the crime. Quinn is the hard-boiled detective who, not blind to her considerable charms, sets out to find the killer before he finds her. What might have been just another Wait Until Dark rip-off is redeemed through its excellent use of visual effects and an attention to detail and character usually missing in the thriller genre. Granted, the mystery's resolution is a little slapdash with its "watch me pull a killer out of my hat" routine, but nevertheless Blink is a refreshingly eye-opening chiller.