Eagle Eye is a 2008 action/thriller film directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. It is based around the story of Isaac Asimov’s ‘All the Troubles of the World‘.
GRADING :
Visual: A
Content: C-
Acting: B
SYNOPSIS : Shia and Michelle, portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out the plot of a corrupted artificial intelligence system.
The United States armed forces have a lead on a suspected terrorist in the Middle East, the DOD’s computer system recommends that the mission be aborted because they cannot obtain a possible ID and it appears that the man is in a burial ceremony. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort recommendation, but the President orders the mission to be carried out. This turns into a political backlash when they realize that they were all civilians.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is the main character, who after finding out that his twin brother is dead, realizes that he has $750,000 in his account for no reason. When he returns home he finds his apartment filled with weapons, explosives and, forged documents in HIS name. He receives a phone call from an unknown woman, that tells him that he has 30 seconds to get out of there, because the FBI is coming for him.
Jerry only wants to know the answer to 4 simple questions: WHAT, WHY, WHO, WHEN.
WHAT is going on?
WHY him?
WHO is responsible?
And WHEN is this going to end?
REVIEW : This is a okay movie. It was great action sequences but for some reason it does not cut it.
I am not going to lie to you, I watched this movie because SHIA LABEOUF (have you seen him, SO DREAMY) and it was produced by freaking STEVEN SPIELBERG. And it would not surprise me that a lot of people watched this movie for at least one of those reasons (if you can call them reasons).
The story is your typical police thriller with lots of cars chasing, FBI, questions, reasons and conspiracies.
The only thing that makes this movie different is the REASON why and WHO is responsible.
I loved the first half of the movie, I am not going to lie. Come on, a freaking person in the phone telling you what to do and KNOWING your every move, that’s good stuff.
Even at the moment you find out why this is happening, it is still good, but not as much.
It is 118 minutes long (about 2 hours)
Nevertheless, the way they beat the responsible does not make sense and it is too FAST. Once you find out everything they rush the movie to a conclusion. And because it is DREAMWORKS, you get a happy ending. Even if it was not what you would had wanted (I know, I didnt).
So, if you like action movies, you might like it
If you like thriller, you might like it
But if you believe that a GREAT movie should be a movie that it is not just good at the beginning but at the END as well, this is not a movie for you.
PROBLEMS : Rushed ending. It takes a lot of time for you to find out what is going on and at the end, they try to cram everything before the film ends.
The main characters do not have chemistry. I do not think is Shia’s fault but Michelle’s (the same happen in Made of Honor). Do not get me run, she is good, she just does not have good chemistry with the actors she has performed with.
Finally, the biggest problem is that the END is not believable.
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The Game (the thriller)
The Net (paranoid high-tech nightmare)
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