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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 31038
Released: December 27, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 27-DEC-2008
Media Type: DVD
Description of Eagle Eye (Two-Disc Special Edition):
The "cell phone thriller" is becoming a genre unto itself, and Eagle Eye should be considered a key example of the form. Frankly preposterous but compulsively watchable, this movie puts Shia LaBeouf in a mess of trouble instigated by a mysterious telephone voice. If he doesn't follow orders, dire things will happen--although when he does follow orders, the consequences are pretty dire, anyway. Also being blackmailed is a single mom (Michelle Monaghan) receiving similar phone calls. Why are they being jerked around by the purring female voice, and why is the road leading to Washington, D.C.? Actually, you won't have time to contemplate these questions, because director D.J. Caruso (who guided LaBeouf in Disturbia) keeps the action going at the customary breakneck pace. This is a wise move, because the real questions you'd likely be asking have to do with the plausibility of events on a minute-by-minute basis (most notably: how could Mysterious Phone Voice possibly know that the two pigeons would survive the hoops she makes them fly through, each one more death-defying than the last?). The actors tumble through this mayhem like scattering bowling pins, including Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson as government agents. Nobody has time to make much of an impression, and LaBeouf has much less room for puppydog charm than he did in Disturbia. Even that would be all right within the movie's berserk parameters, but the really irritating thing is the way the tacked-on final scenes reverse what would have been a heroic climax. No guts, no glory. --Robert Horton
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Eagle Eye (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Eagle Eye 
2009-12-26 - Eagle Eye was a fun wild ride. It had action, and humor. The acting was especially very good. Shila Lebouf did an extremelly good job.
People actually watch this? 
2009-12-26 - This is only the second time in my life I have come across a move that has been so terrible I felt compelled to warn others. If flashing lights and noise are all you need it may work for you. Utterly asinine and boring as hell. I actually could not sit through it. Wish I could put zero stars.
It's watching! 
2009-12-24 - The concept of this movie is interesting. Take a movie like The Lives of Others. Now, instead of humans running the show, imagine if you will a giant supercomputer that is spying over all the denizens of the United States. It will do anything to preserve National Security - and what defines National Security is up to its own interpretation.
This is an AI film that follows in the footsteps of Colossus - The Forbin Project and War Games (25th Anniversary Edition). As such, it warns of the dangers of becoming too dependent on technology to maintain our way of life. To complicate matters further, the computer is endowed with the murky & anti-Constitutional power of Dubya's Patriot Act. That is to say, it feels that it is free to annihilate any person it sees as a threat to National Security. For this computer, a person's Miranda Rights are about as relevant as piccolos are to a marching band.
This is a well done adventure film that doesn't make much sense at first, but makes much more sense as the film moves along. For people who are die-hard advocates of the Patriot Act, it might (just MIGHT!) make them take pause.
An "Eye" for an eye...
2009-12-13 - This movie, in my opinion, is fun... not great, but indeed, fun.
I hate the thought of computers attempting to take over our world, and it's certain this is not the first script presenting this possibility.
I do enjoy the characters and their plight as they meet and come together for what neither, at first, can explain.
Thank goodness Good overcomes Evil, once again.
I just don't know how well this movie's sales would have been, (nor my review, for that matter) were it the other way around. (-:
Entertaining but a little far fetched.
2009-12-05 - This movie falls into a class I call "Entertainment". It is not expected to be realistic, not expected to have much of a plot, it is generally a stretched "what if" thriller.
I enjoyed the movie primarily because I like "what if" types of movies that are fast paced, intriguing and end well.
If you are expecting realism, definitive acting, a strong plot and always believable action, then you will be disappointed. If however, you like to explore how far can government go, what can go wrong and like suspense then you might like the movie. If you cannot accept the impossible as being plausible then skip the movie.
The sum of the movie is about a robot/computer that goes awry and decides to take action into its hands to carry out what it believes to be its mission. Why it takes the particular action it does is a stretch that you have to be willing to accept just to enjoy the rest of the movie.
I actually rate it 3-1/2 stars as it was a good thriller but one in which you have to suspend acceptance of realism.
