Eagle Eye: Review By kyle_hannah

I was one of those guys who was excited for this movie ever since the first teaser aired. I liked that Shia LaBoeuf seemed to be taking a new genre, i thought it looked incredibly suspenseful and action packed, and i thought the addition of Spielberg as producer was icing on the cake. Unfortunatly Eagle Eye was unnappealing in almost every way full of lame cliches, predictable plot twists, and idiotic action sequences.

Let's begin with the acting, probably the only thing this movie has going for it is a stacked team of actors delivering great performances Shia LaBoeuf does once again play his flustered lovable loser but with more depth and reality this time, Michelle Monagan also delivers a fine performance full of panic and paranoia, and the rest is rounded out by Billy Bob Thorntons ruthless F.B.I agent , and Rosario Dawson's always calm and collected Government agent. The movie contains believable acting but unfortunatly nothing else is believable or even entertaining.

Most of what i don't like is the cliched plot as soon as they reveal who is on the other end of the phone i rolled my eyes in disbelief as the lame twist was blandly familiar. The movie delves into ridiculous twists and an ending that is pretty much the same as 2004's I, Robot. I was disappointed largely in the laziness of a potentially good film lost in poor writing that seemed to only get worse as the film progressed and i'm warning you now the film culminates to one of the cheesiest and lamest ending in recent cinema not to mention how abrupt and lazy it is as well.

Director DJ Caruso who is reponsible for Disturbia a film i found fairly good really seems to be trying to emulate both Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay with his directing style unfortunatly failing at both. He tries to use that same level of suspense and curiousity that Spielbergs films always contain and tries to play the movie out like a sci fi film, the problem is that it's just too familiar and uninteresting for us to care about what happens next. The action tries to emulate Bay's style of slow motioned carnage and destruction but unlike Bay who uses great camera angles and top notch effects to make his action scenes thrilling Caruso uses lackluster CG effects and shakes the camera far to much for you to see what's happening. The car wrecks for example are poorly filmed in a Cloverfield sort of way you can't tel what the car is hitting or what part of the care is hitting what all you know is it's hitting something. The action is also absurdly unrealistic with a jet chasing LaBoeufs character Jerry Shaw through an underground tunnel , or when Shaw and Thornton's FBI agent are chasing and fighting each other in an aiport either way it's too crazy to be entertaining.

To be honest i was heavily let down by what i thought would be one of the best action/thrillers of the year and let down big time. I didn't find any aspect of the film particularily good except for most of the acting. DJ Caruso it seems needs to create his own style instead of trying so hard to be like the greats of today (Speilberg, Bay) and the greats of yesterday (Hitchc*ck). I feel he could be a promising director given time but Eagle Eye is something that makes me lose faith in Caruso's future. To finish i merely say don't waste your time Eagle Eye is so familiar and predictable and other films like the aformentioned I, Robot have done this idea much better.