The experience of going mad […] works better than the denouement explaining what brought it about. Even if the script […] and direction are patchy, the obsessive theme is gripping […] – Rezension von Jonathan Rosenbaum im Chicago Reader, ohne Datumsangabe, abgerufen am 5. April 2012.
[Open Your Eyes] is mostly a treat for the eyes […] Amenabar seems to have made a wonderful film about sex, illusion, mirrors, masks and emotional imprisonment. But „Open Your Eyes“ has another agenda, to be a psychological thriller, and it strays into a thick, absurdist plot about double identities, dream states and cryogenics […] The layers collide, and a film that had so much promise, even touches of suspense, collapses into a bewildering mass [sic!]. – Rezension von Peter Stack im San Francisco Chronicle vom 30. April 1999, abgerufen am 5. April 2012.
