Visions (1998) User Reviews

Bad, bad, bad!

[AshenGrey · 2/10 · 3 July 2006]

I tried really hard to find something to like about this film. I REALLY did. There's not much, however.

Okay. the *concept* is viable: main character loses his eyesight and gains paranormal perception in its place.

But it's just ruined by Erik Estrada as the hero-cop. He just chews the scenery to the point that he makes William Shattner's technique seem subtle. Also, he just doesn't pull off the "blind" look very well. They should have just given him dark shades.

Now, the "special" effects are pretty darned cheesy. When computers and such "overload", it's like watching an episode of "Superhuman Samuri Syber Squad".

EE's partner and the computer guru were much better actors. But they couldn't salvage this wretched spool of celluloid.

Worst Movie Ever

[leafsrule911 · 1/10 · 7 December 2004]

Worst Movie Ever Nothing more needs to be said. But I need 10 lines. I have seen a lot of horrible movies in my day but i think this stinker takes the cake. The special effects are terrible and everyone seems embarrassed to be even 10 blocks near the filming of this garbage Erik Estrada looks old and slow. The gun fights are atrocious. Avoid at all cost. There are very few movies that could challenge how horrible this movie is. I want my $3.88 back. I don't know what else i can saw about this movie I'm speechless on how horrible it was. I think this movie beats Puma Man in the horrible department. Definitely worst the movies like Robocop 3, Torque any of those Black Cobra movies. May even be worse that Santa Clause Conquers the Martians.

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[Freak-6 · 2/10 · 23 March 1999]

This movie really is awful. I just read the Guidelines and I now understand why my ex-comment wasn´t published. So you can understand what I think of this movie. I gave it a 2/10 because I don´t want to degrade the makers too much. I think they got enough already.

Rotten Movie

[donnaemrick · 1/10 · 4 August 2007]

This is from my sister who lives in Missouri and watched this movie on a local program hosted by Hank Rotten Jr. a local celebrity, kiddingly titled "Friday Rotten Movie". The only redeeming factor was puns related to his old "C.H.I.P.S." show. She's glad she didn't have to pay that $3.88 to watch it!! Horrible, don't waste your time. Only believable part was when he had to stop and catch his breath after each chase scene. . . and he still had gray helmet hair. Worse movie ever. Awful. Horrible. Terrible. Crappy. Stupid. Dialogue sounded like they were reading slowly from a teleprompter. . . without rehearsal. Disgusting, special effects sucked. Obvious stunt doubles. If given the option she would have given in a minus 1!

We might just as well blame ourselves for bad movies...

[vinyaasi · 9/10 · 21 December 2017]

After writing my review for the Newman documentary, by Jon Fox,..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2198063/

... and thinking it over, I realized that this movie (Vision, Blind Spot) - in its own way - is duplicating the other movie's documentation of the struggle between sovereign men and women who find themselves "bucking something much larger themselves" - in Newman's case, the Patent Office and in this case, the NSA. Since agencies exist under the umbrella of the federal government, and since the US of A is defined in its federal codes and regulations as a corporation (since ~1872), the analogy which I'm drawing here between these two films makes it very easy to respect the intention of this film's creators regardless of their quality of execution (as is so aptly decried by just about all of the other reviews of Visions - Blind Spot. Maybe it's just as well that this movie's creators didn't do a more "slick job", for I know what happens to those movies...

Take Jonathan Livingston Seagull...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070248/

It has one lone seagull bucking the seagull establishment and he ends up training a few others to live outside the flock. That movie was never distributed very well - in my opinion - as an effective technique to keep it from becoming more popular. It's book, from which the movie was taken from, was far more popular. The "Karate Kid" series of movies came out shortly afterward promoting a more violent approach to settling conflicts and making conflict resolution the main theme of life. I guess that appeals more to people then does the pursuit of yoga which the Jonathan Seagull character had been pursuing.

My point is that you can blame the movie for being not worth watching, or you can blame our culture for producing failed movies which have a good message worth watching if only it had been made different, or promoted and distributed differently, .... yada, yada, yada..... fill in your own excuse for bad-mouthing any movie's lack of this, that or the other thing, for it amounts to the same complaint, that...

We don't deserve anything better than what we've got.

Unless, of course, we do something about it. Prayer is a good start, but has to be followed up by some action. It doesn't have to be flamboyant action. But action nonetheless.