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This is an oddly interesting film. Ostensibly it is about a detective who develops psychic powers that aid in the tracking down of the serial killer, Jabberwocky. A consideration of After Alice is not so seemingly, straight forward.

The plot itself is straight out Barnaby Jones. I had suspicions as to Jabberwocky's identity very early on and with all due respect to writer Jeff Miller, the final twist is something of a cliche. It's daytime television stuff and I sort of expected more from a Hollywood movie with a Hollywood budget.

Then there is the Alice in Wonderland motif. Jabberwocky and Alice in Wonderland are entirely separate works by Lewis Carol. The Queen of Hearts doesn't really connect with the Jabberwocky. One is a poem and the other a children's story. The Queen playing card turns up after each murder and the movie is littered with Lewis Carol inspired references but, and again, none of them really serve the narrative in any way at all.

Sutherland, an accomplished actor, made a single movie in 1999, this one. In 2000 he made four. His was a serviceable performance but I had hoped for more passion or commitment from him considering that this was the project for him at the time.

And then there is the psychic aspect. A fall triggers the awakening of psychic powers within Sutherland's character Mickey Hayden and suddenly there are credible experts in the field everywhere! They add an element of interest, as does the entire business of the psychic, but I can't help but think that good old Barnaby could have arrived at a conclusion without the hocus-pocus.

The psychic artifice does though provide an avenue for a romantic interest in the form of Polly Walker's character Dr Vera Swan but it is a relationship that doesn't go anywhere even though Sutherland is recovering from a broken marriage, is vulnerable and available.

I have no regrets in finding the 100 minutes to watch the movie but I won't be expending any energy finding space on the shelf for the DVD.

Somehow the movie has a great appealing on paranormal phenomena, a suject that catch the attention for many, however with so much empty blanks, out from nowhere the drunkard Detective Mickey Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) starts getting psychic powers, having visions when he touchs some objects from the victims, totally inaccurate, whoever that has this specific powers it unfolds in tender age, never in a mature man, as exposes by Professor Harvey (Henry Czerny) in early lines who really has such gift, also Dr. Vera Swann (Polly Walker) who didn't has enough space in the confusing plot, not allowed us a bit of her usual sexual appealing, what a waste, actually the story is so unbelievable, so unreal that is funny, beyond of any fair explanation, others elements weren't duly addressed, then the movie stays lame, adrift, which can't hold up itself, Kiefer Sutherland exert oneself by a movie that is doomed to failure, the Killer Jabberwocky is a farce, the movie as well, at least it keeps you awake, extremely useful for sleepwalkers!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6

I don't watch PSI factor or any other tv science fiction series because they are either too badly written or over the top and really gross you out. But I do enjoy "psychic" movies. Kiefer Sutherland's performance was top-notch. He actually raised the calibre of the material with his excellent delivery of occasionally awkward or mundane lines. His professionalism is admirable. He refused to give a bad performance. The other psychic, Harvey, was a hoot and equally well played.I agree with Len Butz that this is a subtle movie and I thank him for his insight re Alice In Wonderland. I liked this movie very much. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys watching fine performances, where an actor is given rough materials and actually improves the work by virtue of his own presence in the movie. He is doing an equally incredible job in his tv series 24, and certainly deserved his Golden Globe. If you don't go in expecting an Elm Street slasher, you will enjoy this movie.

Michael Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) is a drunk police detective haunted by nightmares of visions through the eye of the killer. He's put on the Jabberwocky case. It's been ten years since the last time the "Alice in Wonderland" obsessed serial killer showed up. Michael starts having waking visions. Harvey (Henry Czerny) claims that they're psychic visions. He's a literary college professor. Dr. Vera Swann (Polly Walker) insists that Harvey is not Jabberwocky.

The drunken haunted police detective may be a cliché. It is still a perfectly good character. In another movie, this could be a compelling character. This movie is a mess. The connections seem random. The plot seems disjointed. The case is not laid out very well. Sutherland keeps the movie from going off the rails but he isn't able to save this. The psychic visions are a bit lame. It's a poorly made psychic police procedural.

ALICE is the kind of movie they made in the 30's and 40's. Never attempts to be an "event". Just wants to entertain. And it does. I was surprised by Kiefer Sutherland. In a role that could be a cliche, he made it real. The plot does make allusions to ALICE IN WONDERLAND. A guy dressed in white does go through a hole and Kiefer does fall down one. Like ALICE the plot does twist and turn, but with a freshness you don't see in small movies. I loved the direction, Sutherland, just a very fast paced and interesting movie.

I have seen this movie 2 times in the past 3 months and its about a cop who is trying to catch a killer and he can see visions of the murders after they happen if he touching something of the vitamin's.This movie is good with some flaws and the movie stars actors and actress like Kefer Sutherland,Henry Czerny,Gary Hudson (I),Polly Walker (II) and Ronn Sarosiak.And this is a must watch movie if u are a fan of Kiefer Sutherland or mystery or thriller movies and Kiefer does a good job at acting in this movie.Kiefer SUtherland has been in other great movies like Young Guns,Flashback,Phone Booth,Dark City and Young Guns 2 and many more great movies.Over all this movie was good and my rating is 5 and a half out of 10.

I really liked this movie. If other people want to give it an average around 5.0/10 that's their choice. I would give it higher. Sutherland's performance as a private eye is totally awesome. The story is amazing, human, exciting, intelligent. The dialogue is good. The story might not be perfect but anyway - the mood of the movie is good enough to compensate for that. Moreover, the ending is incredibly cool and their the jig-saw puzzle really comes back to together. So anyway I liked it. I also thought the female lead actress performed very well. I'm not a big fan of detective movies but this one was really good, also because it doesn't give a damn about conventions of the supernatural.

This film is cringingly bad. You can tell that all the actors are embarrassed to be associated with such a truly terrible movie. There are obvious budget constraints but with a little thought and attention to detail the movie could have been so much better. For example: check out the scene where Mickey first goes to the mortuary and is talking to his friend the pathologist whilst the murdered taxi driver is lying on the slab. You can actually see the corpse breathing! What, couldn't they afford to hire a half-decent extra that could hold his breath for a 2 minute scene?!

"Eye of the killer" as it's known here in England on dvd is a truly superb serial killer Thriller.

It said on it's cover that this Thriller is similar to "Seven" & "The 6th Sense" but in my opinion it's way better than both.

Keifer Sutherland truly gives an outstanding performance as a deeply troubled & tortured alcoholic Detective. His magnificent piece of real acting reminded of his other fantastic performance in the Cult Classic "Mirrors" as both Cops are very troubled men.

Here Keifer plays Detective Mickey Hayden, who is on the brink of a breakdown, he's split from his wife, he constantly drinks & smokes way too much & he's angry at the world. A masterclass in acting by Keifer here as he is also dealing with his horrific "Gift" that fact that when he touches the dead body of a serial killer's latest victim's or even a piece of evidence, he gets an energy that makes him see through the killers eyes & see the murder take place. It's a torturers gift that has left him an anxious nervous & emotional wreck & deeply troubled.

These visions are stressing him out so he drinks more to block it out & prefers to work nights & sleep days, it's such a complicated & complex character & you can see that Keifer gave it his all in the magnificent role.

Keifer acts his ass off in a movie that could easily be considered just another low-budget,direct-to-video flick but he creates such weight to the material that the film is a superior & superb serial killer Thriller with a supernatural undertone.

Keifer is sort of psychic & his abilities brings him some friends & some enemies as he goes about trying to solve the serial killer mystery that has recently started up again after a 10 year break!!!

This Mystery is full of suspense & has a twist of Noir & exciting Thriller tone throughout.

The cast are all good in their roles & all gave solid performances, especially Polly Walker.

The music is great & the twists & turns are surprising.

A truly excellent Thriller & one of the best of the genre & has one of the best performances for a Thriller ever with Keifer!!!

Brilliant crime Thriller.

After a sinister serial killer shockingly breaks his ten-year hiatus, dour, misanthropic maverick detective Mickey Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) does his boozy best to discover the identity of this evil, psychopathic killer. It must be a notable moment in an actor's working life when they play their very first psychically-inclined detective. It's the trope all too few care to talk about, but it's nothing to be ashamed of, big guy, you're amongst friends here! Kiefer's 'I see dead people' acting is really rather good in Eye of The Killer. For a quality mainstream actor he has made many notable cult movies, this isn't one of them, but his performance is. Just watch handsomely grizzled lush Kiefer, block out everyone else, and then, perhaps, yes, his dipso psychometric cop is a cult!!?? Booze always looks way cooler in glossy fillums than it is in reality. I must just reiterate, majestically moody Kiefer's pronounced psychometric reactions are textbook.

A stupid direct-to-video procedural about an alcoholic cop investigating an apparent serial killer with the supposed twist being that the cop has psychic powers, "After Alice," otherwise known by the dumber title of "Eye of the Killer," stars Kiefer Sutherland, and he's as atrocious as usual here. There was no need for all of the "Alice in Wonderland" references, either, except to waste my time, as I've been tracking down a bunch of movies inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

The White Rabbit is represented by a white-haired and clothed runner who steals Sutherland's liquor at the grocery store. Sutherland chases him through a small door hole and ends up falling down another hole and knocking himself unconscious. There's a "smiling" cat outside his apartment window. He's investigating a "Jabberwocky" serial-killer case, where the Joker--I mean, totally unrelated murderer--leaves playing cards at his crime scenes, the prime suspect owns a copy of Carroll's text, and whose first victim was named Alice. Sutherland's boss is a Lieutenant "Hatter," to boot, and there's a newspaper with "Mirror" in its name, for a bonus reference to the second Alice book, "Through the Looking-Glass," I guess. Oh, and there's another psychic, too, who's apparently a professor and gives a lecture on the White Knight. None of this adds anything to the picture, though. The filmmakers demonstrate no actual comprehension of the texts from which they've lifted character names and the one scene with a white rabbit.

For starters, the Alice books have nothing to do with cops and psychics. If they actually wanted to try to do something somewhat clever with "Alice in Wonderland" here, they could've suggested the narrative as a dream--especially given that the movie begins with Sutherland waking up from a nightmare, that he has psychic "visions," as well as presumably alcohol-fueled ones, and that he suffers a concussion from the "rabbit hole" fall. But, alas, no. Instead, we get a whodunit with point-of-view shots for the killer ripped off from "Halloween" (1978) and a gazillion other films and where all the plot twists are telegraphed for anyone who's already seen plenty of similar hack jobs to know what's coming. Unless you enjoy sitting through entire acts of Sutherland's overblown cliché of a characterization for such hunches to inevitably be confirmed by the garbage script and filmmaking, then I'd recommend seeing something else after reading the Alice books.

This movie kept me on the edge of my seat... although after a certain point I knew who was doing what and so forth. I'm not a bad fan of Kiefer but he didn't do half bad in the movie. Whoever writes these type of movies deserve a pat on the back because they play with your mind just enough to where it is a look of surprise when you realize the plot unfolding into your lap. I'd gave it a thumbs up.

Kiefer Sutherland stars in "Eye of a Killer" or "After Alice" as it is also know.

Sutherland plays Mickey Hayden, a drunken cop who finds he can do psychometry after hitting his head. Ten years prior to the film, a killer known as Jabberwocky was on the loose. Now he's back with his random killings and leaving a playing card at the scene of each murder. Hayden's boss, Hatter (Gary Hudson) assigns him to the case.

The problem for Mickey, besides his drinking, is that he can see the murder taking place but not the killer. He meets a scientist interested in psychic ability (Polly Walker) who tries to help him.

Strange and confusing film with a good performance by Sutherland. Also appearing are Henry Czerny, and Eve Crawford plays the publisher of a newspaper.

The story isn't particularly clear as the script is muddled. It's a shame because it could have been compelling, particularly with all the Alice in Wonderland references which were very clever. Had it not been for Sutherland, I'm not sure this film could even have been made.

People watch movies for a variety of different reasons. This movie didn't have the big budget, there's no special effects, no car chases and there's no explosions. Actually reality doesn't have much of these either. At least not in my life.

This is a very real movie about very real people, none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos. I am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology, since I'm neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain.

So watch this movie for the characters. It is brim-full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk.

Within the first three minutes Kiefer Sutherland enacts Detective Michael Hayden's life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie. Excellent acting, very believable.

Henry Czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his 'Harvey' and Kiefer's 'Mickey' enhances the oppositeness of their characters.

I thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady, 'Mrs Ramsay', I'm sure she and my mother-in-law are good friends!!!

There's a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them.

ANOTHER great performance by Kiefer Sutherland. I love his movies, because he always plays his role very well. For a low budget film, this was done very good, and kept me on the edge the whole time. I love these type of movies, and I was glad I caught it on. I'll be buying the dvd or tape for sure.

9/10.

Another brilliant portrayal by Kiefer Sutherland who plays Mickey Hayden, a cop dealing with psychic visions of murdered victims. I absolutely love movies dealing with the psychic realm, and I wasn't disappointed with "Eye of the Killer" (AKA After Alice). I only wish the movie had been released theatrical first.

I thought this film was excellent, quirky and different to the usual run of the mill 'disengaged cop catching serial killer' film. Kiefer Sutherland was brilliant as usual - I really don't think I have seen anything that he has done where he has not acted brilliantly. The dialogue was funny at times lightening the mood, and the plot engaging. Thanks to other reviewers for showing the link with Alice in Wonderland - I hadn't picked up on those. I would recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of Kiefer Sutherlands (as I am) and to anyone who wants to watch an entertaining film for a couple of hours. It was a shame that it wasn't released at the cinemas for a wider audience.

Trash. The script: trash. The cinematography: trash. The acting: 90% trash. The plot: trash. I did not enjoy the movie. I figured it out pretty quickly. Most characters were poorly acted; Kiefer Sutherland was not too bad. The writing was absolutely horrible. Not worth the time it took to watch. I'm sorry if I offended anyone who worked on this picture, but that is merely my opinion.

Sutherland plays an alcoholic cop who, after a fall, develops psychic powers. His new found ability to develop psychic impressions from touching items of clothing, keys, etc, helps him track down a serial killer who has reemerged after a 10 year hiatus of not killing. Working with a doctor in para-psychology along with another psychic, he learns to accept his psychic powers and uses them to uncover a conspiracy protecting the killer. If you like TV shows like PSI Factor, you will probably like this movie. I found nothing very memorable in terms of acting, sound, or camera work, and there are certainly better serial killer movies ("Freeway" if you like Sutherland). * * 1/2 out of * * * * *