‘Sight’ Review: Angel Studios’ Inspiring Biopic of a Chinese Immigrant Eye Surgeon Proves Sincere but Bland
variety.comJoe Leydon Film Critic Call “Sight” a stealth faith-based movie and you won’t be far off the mark. For the most part, it’s a respectful but unremarkable biopic about Dr.
Ming Wang, a Chinese-born, Nashville-based eye surgeon whose innovative use of amniotic membrane contact lenses has helped restore the eyesight of millions of patients, many of them children.
But the end, which contains a QR code much like distributor Angel Studios’ summer blockbuster “Sound of Freedom” did last year, features the real Dr.
Wang — one of the film’s executive producers — in a sequence where he credits his success as having been possible “only with God’s grace,” after he was able to “open myself to God.” Judging from the time-tripping scenario cobbled together by writers John Duigan, Buzz McLaughlin and director Andrew Hyatt, Wang’s road to Damascus was a rugged one.
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