At First Sight (1999)

Too many fans seem to be blown away

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Movies so rarely touch the heart, and this one was perfect.

There I said it. I just like everything about this movie even though (if I'm honest) this time through I did find Val Kilmer's perpetual goofy grin and childlike ways kind of off putting (unsexy) On a plus this was made back when he still looked "Top Gun" good and the initial massage sequences are very sensual.Kilmer plays Virgil Adamson a blind masseur who falls in love with one of his clients (Mira Sorvino). He goes home with her to New York and agrees to undergo a risky operation to restore his sight. The outcome however is not what anyone could have predicted and leaves him longing for his former sightless world.Ultimately, besides being a great romance this movie made me think about "seeing" in a whole new way especially in how your brain processes vision. Kilmer does do a great job showing Virgil's struggles in that respect. Based on a true story. 12.13

Irwin Winkler's "At First Sight" stars Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino as a couple of lovers. He's a blind masseuse, she's an architect, and together then embark on a journey rife with back rubs, kissing and cuddling.The film's first act does well to sketch the difficulties of the visually impaired. By its second act, however, Kilmer's blindness is used as a hokey metaphor for the wisdom of the sightless, who are able to appreciate the oft overlooked subtleties of nature and womanhood. As such, Sorvino melts in Kilmer's arms, this dashing blind dude peering deep into her soul like no man with 20/20 vision ever could. Conventional? Yes, but Kilmer and Sorvino have good chemistry, and the film's "massage scenes" are interesting, Kilmer's generous hands practically spurring Sorvino to orgasm. If only, she thinks, all men saw as as Kilmer does.6/10 – Worth one viewing. See Minnelli's "The Clock".

How ordinary this turned out to be...Here was an enormous opportunity to give us an exposition on the discovery of sight - what else are movies for? But no...this is reduced to the lowest common denominator of melodrama.This really could have been something in the hands of, say, a DePalma - someone who understands that perspective comes first...Winkler sticks to flat notions of fish out of water jokes transmogrifying into occasions to grab the tissues.But then, how can we expect adventure when these things are built around star appeal? Pretty-boy Kilmer acts with his upper teeth; Sorvino is just embarrassingly bad, not even glamorous.