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Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.
Shia LaBeouf: Jerry Shaw
Michelle Monaghan: Rachel Holloman
Let's start my review by saying Eagle Eye isn't that original, it's been done before and it's got one of those plots you can predict and guess before events transpire. I know I certainly could determine what in fact was going to happen.
Does this stop Eagle Eye from being thrilling, action-packed, tense and a thrill ride of mass proportions that never slows down? You bet your socks it doesn't stop one thing, and Eagle Eye results in one of the sleeper hits of 2008. It's a film that could be ripped apart by critics if looked upon negatively, but I'd say to them that they may have missed the tantalizing action and chases which for me make the film.
Eagle Eye is the best form of entertainment and the one thing this type of film excels in cinema viewing. The blaring sound, fast pacing and crazy shoot outs and action all equal a tour de force in the blockbuster stakes.
''We are everywhere.''
Granted the plot of Eagle Eye resembles Matrix mixed with I,Robot then throw in Terminator or anything A.I.related and that pretty much sums up the originality and predictability of the equation. I also like the way the film aims and hits certain points on how loop holes can exist in constitutions or laws, and that the advancement and use of A.I. combined with technology and control can result in our downfall as a species. Which begs the question do we learn from all these books and films that warn us of this impending doom? The answer I like to come up with is it does and it doesn't. Like trying to solve global warming or a financial depression, or even fuel inflation prices, the only way these problems like the first one, get resolved are when the actual problem becomes so close to destruction, that people have to notice. Which is often the crucial point where it's hard to cure the said problem.
Eagle Eye shows us an Enemy of the State kind of world, one in which we are living in here and now. The problem is that whether it be corrupt people with their own agendas or a computer intelligence hell bent on correcting us, it's one issue of Control...
''If you're staring at me, it better be because I'm the suspect. If not, get back to work or I swear you're all demoted to something that involves touching shit with your hands!''
The casting of Eagle Eye is a pretty tight ship.
We have likable young Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw, the troubled and seemingly every day man who's the unlikely Hero of the story. We have Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloman as the female heroine, who also excels alongside Shia.
Then we have veterans and class Actors like Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis and Billy Bob Thornton as a Agent Thomas Morgan. Never would of thought of Billy Bob as a Special Agent but he seems to pull off the role with an array of positive results.
We have a thrilling soundtrack, clever camera work and you actually feel like you're on the run with the heroes thanks to CCTV footage, monitoring Cameras and surveillance Technology, which makes proceedings even more thrilling and heart ravishingly intoxicating.
A chase involving a plane through a tunnel, a huge orb room and a beginning which puts a whole new perspective on terrorism, cultures and religions and ways of the Eastern World clashing with Western values. Showing that not all decisions the US Army, US Air force or the US Government make are correct. All of this assert and cement Eagle Eye as not being a thriller chase movie but one with an underlining deeper message about our world we live in and the growing factors that need addressing.
Overall Eagle Eye is like Enemy Of the State 2 with a Terminator Sky-Net plot thrown in for good measure. A plot that you can work out easily as mentioned and tense thrilling chases that never stop until you finish the film's formula 1 game of cat and mouse.
She got hundreds of fire arms into my apartment, she added $750,000 to my bank account, she helped me escape from a high security holding in the FBI in a way I'm not even going to try to explain because it sounds so crazy, and she called the phone of a stranger sitting next to me on a bus, I'd never even seen the guy before in my life. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she can derail a train. She could turn a train into a talking duck if she wanted to.''
8/10
