His way to treat the subject was too serious. The absence of commercial success is not necessarily synonymous with a good movie. In the case of At First Sight , its absence is no sign of great quality, either. But in the beginning, it is a touching, sensitive and quiet movie. Val Kilmer is convincing as a blind man and Mira Sorvino is always at her best when she can use her innocent and cute smile.
Some details are less convincing, too.
In their love scenes, Mira shows no passion and seems even embarrassed. Last, in their ice-scating scene, one gets the impression that in fact Amy is the better skater. Overall, At First Sight is above average but not great. Mira Sorvino's latest appearance is in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam - a film based on the 1977 New York City random serial killings of brunettes by David Berkowitz that created terror and paranoia especially among women in the Big Apple and that got a lot of tabloid and other media attention. In Lee's first film with a mostly white cast, Mira Sorvino plays a fictional Italian-American housewife in the Bronx.