"All I See Is You" is a romantic-psychological-thriller with two of the most repulsive leading characters in recent memory.

The setting is Bangkok, Thailand, and the focus is on a dysfunctional marriage built around the sense of sight. Gina is visually impaired, due to a devastating automobile accent in which her parents died and she lost her sight. "Big Bad" James is the doting husband who has found his calling in life by being a caretaker to his beloved wife and relishing in her dependency.

Due to the miracle of medical science, Gina has surgery that restores her sight in one eye. The film might have been a celebration of the gift of eyesight, as clearly the film artists have some talent in the visual language of cinema. Instead, the film turned into a bizarre psychological thriller.

There is a defining moment in the film when Gina ask James whether he loved her more when she was blind. "Big Bad" James hedges on his answer, turning question back on Gina.

The couple attempts to celebrate the occasion of Gina's restored sight by traveling to Spain. But Gina and James bicker about whether or not they are staying in the same exact hotel room from their honeymoon, and they meet the strangest pair of in-laws imaginable in Gina's sister and her psychotic avant-garde artist husband.

Another bummer in the couple's relationship is that they desperately want a child, which is not forthcoming. Of course, they are convinced that having a baby will solve all of their personal problems! "Big Bad" James is shooting blanks due to low sperm count. So, do they try to solve the problem by talking about in vitro? Of course not, because talking about their problems would be the sign of a healthy relationship!

In the most improbable moment in the film, "Big Bad" James dilutes Gina's eye drops in the hope her blindness will return along with the former power structure of their relationship. He also inexplicably has the couple's lavish apartment trashed and turns loose Gina's beloved dog Ginger. But Gina outfoxes "Big Bad" James. Ginger finds a new a loving pet owner. Gina secretly takes her genuine eye drops. And for the clincher, she becomes pregnant after coupling with a potent fellow dog lover!

This slow-moving film was a train wreck in character development. With a thin script, the filmmakers attempted to drench the product in atmosphere. The result was a big-budget Lifetime Channel psychodrama about a couple of nut cases.

Abysmal. made me angry. unbearably predictable. awkward and weird with so many parts where i questioned why it's in the movie, and that was never answered. there are some good things here, like music and visuals. has a trippy feel. and lots of intrigue to start the movie. i remember thinking i kinda like this about a third of the way through. but i knew that so little had happened in the plot so far, and the directions the movie could take could easily swing my opinion either way. i was right. they went in a horrible direction. almost nothing happens in this movie. a lot of times with movies that start with intrigue, it never amounts to anything. it just feels kind of pointless at the end. this movie went further. it actually angered me and made me want to stop watching. i finished on fast speed but i already knew basically everything that would happen. focused on forced relationship drama and feelings. was difficult to finish. (1 viewing)

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when i started to realize that this was going to be about how her feelings about her husband change and she cheats on him, i would have never watched this. and also the husband being a piece of crap and trying to blind his wife and gave the dog away. i knew he was going to mess with the medicine the second he looked at it. so lame. so predictable. this movie is for drama fiends. like girls who love soap operas and romantic reality shows. and the weird and awkward sex stuff with the sister and brother-in-law. i mean seriously, in this sex thriller the only nudity is the brother in law's but as he rubs red paint on it after he's done spreading it on a bull sculpture. and then he puts on a dress and goes talks to his wife and blake. yes, it's as weird as it sounds. or what about the scene where blake lively takes a bath with her young nephew. like.. why??? what is the purpose of that. what did it add to the movie or the characters. also, a bird flew into the window and died, blake decides to freeze it, supposedly to collect the feathers like she did as a child............ garbo garbo garbo

"All I See Is You" is a film that left me a tad disappointed. The idea for the story was very good but at times the execution seemed a bit flat....and the cinematographic trick seemed overused.

The story is oddly set in Thailand...and I really was never sure why a blind American woman would live in such a world. I have nothing against Thailand or any other country....but it did seem odd she would live in such a difficult place in which she could become acclimated due to the language and culture. It would be difficult enough to live her life in a more familiar setting. Regardless, she lives with her husband and her life seems good. But after she receives eye surgery and her vision is restored, the marriage begins to show a lot of problems....and how the husband responds to it is quite strange....but interesting.

The film wasn't bad at all and the notion of eye surgery actually resulting in a marital breakdown is fascinating. The Iranian director, Majid Majidi did a brilliant film about this ("The Willow Tree"). But here it seemed as if the film had two problems. First, to simulate the woman's vision, we often saw distorted views of the world...and this seemed overused and gimmicky. Second, some of the film seemed unnecessarily crude and rather gross. A but more subtlety would have made for a better story. Still, it is interesting and you won't hate it....but it so easily could have been a bit better.