| Eagle Eye |  | Director: D.J. Caruso
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie
Studio: Dreamworks Video
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Rating:  202 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 097363492641
UPC: 097363492641
EAN: 0097363492641
ASIN: B001L57ZYM
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 27, 2008
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Product Description
Two strangers become involved in a high-tech assassination plot when they are called by a mysterious woman who threatens their families and can track
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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 It's been done better... July 11, 2010
GratedTopping
Okay, I just saw the movie a few moments ago and am just typing about it. Just thinking 'on the go' and not backing up on anything.
Anyway, here, you'll have "Aria", the voice of the "Eagle Eye" project in the 36th secret underground floor of the Pentagon. It's there to track possible terrorists and all data about basically every person. She uses every cell phone, electronic device, traffic cameras, and almost anything electronic to analyze us. Heck, she can even dectect what is being said by the vibrations she 'sees' in a cup of coffee! However, she's gone on her own, determining that the Executive branch of the government needs to be eliminated.
Rachel's a mother raising her son and dealing with a deadbeat dad who's part of the assassination plot; she's teamed up with .. I admitedly forget the character's name .. but he's played by Shia LaBeouf. Both are getting messages or spoken voices -- all sent by the computer -- to do specific things which will ultimately lead them to Washington. For example, they need to steal a briefcase from guards of an armored vehicle...but it doesn't contain money. It has some sort of drug that allows them to slow their breathing and heart rate when they sneak on government plane.
Anyway, the story contains something about a crystal bomb that, when presented by a certain note, will explode and destroy major areas despite its size. Rachel's son plays the trumpet and with others in his school's band will be playing for the President. A person being led by "Aria" has hidden some sort of activator in the trumpet. At least that is how I got it. It showed "Aria" noticing and activating it.
Now, at the end, Rachel was in the Capitol building at the end and it all was pretty ridiculous. I mean, it had shown her putting on the necklace/crystal. She must have known that if her son played the trumpet, what she had on her neck would kill her, her son, and everyone else there. So...why go anyway? I mean, let "Aria" kill her son but the rest would be spared. You wouldn't be killing yourself, at least. The President would be spared ... at least until someone else was manipulated by the "Eagle Eye".
Why was Rachel even going to see the President? How was she recognized? Why did Rachel look so surprised to see her son playing for the President? I don't know. I thought she knew that this was going on. Oh wait. . I think I recall that someone from the White House approaching the teacher and saying something like "There was a change of plan."
Shia's character soon learned that his brother learned of the project's desire to go AWOL and the machine killed him by controlling traffic lights that resulted in a car crash. Shia was lured to the project and, because he was so similar in voice to his brother's, he was able to speak the words overriding the computer's last given command. Whatever.
The very end was a disappointment. It should have finished with Shia's character passing away with him sacrificing himself. He had just gone into the main room as a security guard and
shot his gun in the air. He knew that the music would cause the bomb to go off, so he did this to scare everyone and stop the band's playing. Of course, he was taken down.
Rosario Dawson's character and another military member were trying to shut "Aria" down. They had found a memory card left by Shia's brother -- who wasn't a terrorist after all -- which showed a video of "Aria"'s first moment of deciding to do things her way. If you disagree with her, you are then enemy's of the state. They should have shown Ms. Dawson's character telling others how the Shia's character had saved the Presiden't life and the lives of many others.
Yet it ends with Shia just receiving an award, being barely wounded with a broken arm even though he was shot at least 5 times in the back and chest, and ... a year or so later ... meeting up with Rachel and getting a kiss at her son's birthday.
The coolest thing in this movie was that the car crashes were awesome and were also real and not computerized (which I learned in an extra on the DVD). For extras, you'll have three deleted (two are actually just extended); a behind-the-scenes that lasts about 5 minutes; and some previews. One other deleted scene I recognized in the behind-the-scenes was when "Aria", the "Eagle Project"
Okay flick for brainless action with a 'similarity' that's been done better elsewhere back in 1983's "WarGames". Check this for cool crashes, Billy Bob Thornton as an FBI agent, and the lovely Rosario Dawson as an agent for...? I think she said something about being a part of the Navy or something.
Anyway, this was exciting but preposterous and confusing. Sure, my comments might have been confusing as well, but I wanted to prepare you for "Eagle Eye". You'll certainly think "What the ????" after or during this stinker.
 Action instead of accuracy May 25, 2010
David Spade (Hollywoooood)
I won't waste time discussing all the innacuracies and impossibities because the techno nerds have already done that. Sure it doesn't reflect real life as much as Transformers or Star Wars, but this was more of an action movie than anythig else. And the action was fast with a few jokes and meaningful moments thrown in.
 I know what color your underwear is May 23, 2010
Rev. E. A. Hernandez
Although 44 film reviews really sucks for a movie of this grade, I'm glad it is so few at this point. You see, I tremble with fear whenever I see a newer film and it has 500-800 reviews already. EAGLE EYE is so low, I wonder how many people actually saw it.
Well, I suspect you know the drill on this one, so my personal observation-critique will be the standard for this one.
I think Shia is very sexy in this film, and he had a bit of that just beginning in the original TRANSFORMERS. Here, I thought it was a massive stroke of genius to make him a twin whose over-achieving military officer brother has died. It is this brother that is the major key in the film, and me likey! It means more imagination, less BS. (You'll notice AVATAR stole this concept of twins.)
The creepy extortionist who's really a computer gone mad...well I certainly didn't see that one coming, in spite of the fact that when it did come, it was a total rip-off of I, ROBOT. That wasn't too bad, considering the drama and suspense this film gives us. Shia's performance, though at times I think maybe a bit tepid, is intense. I love his eyes.
That is where I am leaving it. My opinion is you need to see this film for yourself, as it seems so few people saw it. Shia deserves great support in his work right now, and I for one am giving it my all. I even suffered through DISTURBIA, one of the crappiest films ever made, because he's in it.
Are you f****** kidding me? May 19, 2010
V. Kowzun (Yardley, PA USA)
I've seen a great many films in my life, and I have almost never come across one as preposterous as this one.
A super computer designed for the purpose of gathering intelligence is given full control of every single electronic device on the planet. Even the ones it would have no use for, and many that are technologically impossible to remote control. Really?
Why is a school band assigned to play at the State of the Union address? Those kinds of ensembles play at baseball games AT THE MOST.
Why do some of ARIA's plans depend her own unforseen setbacks?
Identical twins don't have the same biometric signatures or voice patterns.
Why does ARIA have to tell the characters how to navigate in the cars? Shouldn't she just be able to control them herself?
ARIA's leverage over Rachel is that she will kill her son, but without him, her entire plan is shot.
Why make this whole intricate, calculated plan when, given her resources, ARIA could just launch a missile or something at where the president is?
Why are telephones allowed in one of the most secure places on Earth?
It's never made clear exactly how all the supplies ended up in Jerry's apartment.
Why pick a bomb that detonates on a specific note, and not one that detonates the second the trumpet is blown into?
Now, despite the abysmal, hole-ridden screenplay, I have to admit that the movie never bored me. However, the only reason for that is that I wanted to see what feats of sheer stupidity the writers could pull off next.
Meh......more like 2.5 stars. May 8, 2010
Niels Bohr (Ohio)
Somewhat ok if you willing to be stupid. Otherwise, preposterous, contrived, feeble, silly, dumb, intelligence-insulting, etc. You get the picture... I don't always agree with the critics, but they're right about this one. I stole a quote from another reviewer but it applies. Also, as with any other movie that has Shia LecrappyactorthatIwishwasdead, I remove 1 more star so this movie really rates 1.5
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