Before the hit television show "24," Keifer Sutherland played mostly despicable, evil characters. That's what he does in this film, as "Robert Doob," a low-life who rapes and kills Sally Field's daughter and then is unfairly released by the courts. Sally, playing "Karen McCann," goes after justice.

Almost everyone loves a revenge story and that, of course, is what this movie is, pure and simple: kind of a female "Death Wish."

As for the characters, Sutherland is "over the top" with his guy - way, way past despicable, so ridiculously bad and evil you might even laugh.

For those who picture Sally Field as "The Flying Nun," this movie will be a shock. She is anything but the sweet, wholesome-looking girl she appeared to be in so many of her films when she was younger.....or even the new TV commercials of today. Even though she has shown she can be very foul- mouthed ('m talking 'real life'),somehow seeing her portrayed here as a vigilante, doesn't ring up. Charles Bronson, yes; Sally Field, uh.....no.

Be warned: this is a tough movie in spots, especially in the beginning. It is very similar to the opening in "Death Wish," and is not for the squeamish.

This isn't a bad movie. It is extremely manipulative and has a bunch of plot holes, but if you love revenge films and don't care about particularly intelligent scripts (although the mad-as-hell mom isn't stupid in here),you can just add this one to your library. It serves its purpose of entertaining.

Revenge has often been a theme in movies ("Kill Bill" brought it to its apex). "Eye for an Eye" is pretty middling. I agree with a previous reviewer that action isn't really Sally Field's forte; she's one of America's more serious actresses (like Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep),and thus seems out of place here. To add to that, John Schlesinger did an interesting job with action in "Marathon Man". But that one was more about espionage, and this is straightforward revenge, so it comes across strange.

All that said, the movie itself is actually quite tense. Kiefer Sutherland is the perfect person to play the bad guy. The whole end sequence may really freeze your blood. Worth seeing for those aspects, but this just isn't Sally Field's kind of movie. On the other hand, it is kinda neat to see the Flying Nun bringing out her inner beast.

Also starring Ed Harris, Joe Mantegna, Beverly D'Angelo and Philip Baker Hall.

This movie has been reviewed into overkill by many others on this board, so I will spare you another home-viewer's two thumbs down. However I would like to state that I am EXTREMELY surprised that no one has commented about the actual rape scene itself. I can remember watching this as a kid on Lifetime, and years later still remembering that scene to a chilling degree. In most cases for rape scenes, (at least the ones aired on television) they only get from the waist up in the shot. In this particular scene, the camera is aimed straight ahead at the rapist in a sitting position on the floor with the young girl laying out in front of him. Although there is no nudity involved, the scene is VERY graphic in nature. I don't know how in the world they got that girl to play out the scene so well, but I could actually feel her pain, as depicted in her face and screaming from being ripped apart. It was enough make me sick my stomach then as a child, and now as an adult.