An overcooked, far-fetched, break-neck paced thriller that has plenty of action but little time for anything else
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10/06/08
Eagle Eye (2008)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:8
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Eagle Eye is a preposterously plotted thriller that borrows heavily from other superior films.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Sep 25, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $101,111,837
Synopsis: D.J. Caruso (TAKING LIVES, DISTURBIA) directs this tale of intrigue that utilizes technology as a character. Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a slacker who works at Copy Cabana--until he returns home... [More]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis
Director: D.J. Caruso
Reviews for Eagle Eye
1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe film is probably twenty minutes too long, and can't seem to decide if its techno-philic or -phobic, but is an otherwise compelling and cogent performance piece for LaBeouf and company.
10/03/08
Top CriticThe scriptwriters are setting a trap, but there's a risk. If they push the capabilities of the unseen female voice too far -- and they do -- they risk our patience. Once you withdraw your willingness to believe, it's hard to get it back.
10/03/08
Top CriticIt has been shot and edited with that hectic, all-too-familiar brand of impressionistic choppiness often used by Hollywood directors to make a silly story unintelligible.
10/03/08
Top CriticWithout giving anything away, let's just say that the ending of Eagle Eye is about as subtle as being impaled to death by an American flag.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe film unfolds at such breakneck speed that the credits are rolling before it becomes fully apparent that the storyline actually ran out of gas some way back.
09/26/08
Top CriticIn Eagle Eye, old-school political paranoia is filtered through a new prism that focuses not on terrorism but on overcooked US government measures to monitor citizens.
09/26/08
Top CriticWe're told that the idea for Eagle Eye came from executive producer Steven Spielberg, but it's not a very original idea and it's no surprise that Spielberg didn't want to direct it himself...
09/26/08
Top CriticThis big, bone-headed and unintentionally laughable techno-fear thriller is a movie in one hell of a hurry.
09/26/08
Top CriticIt's presented as a thriller, and it is, but Eagle Eye is also a political film. It's not a very good political film, nor is it a very good thriller, ironically enough because it wants to be very good at both.
09/18/08
Top Criticdon’t have the willpower, words, or energy to explain why a psychopathic CIA computer suddenly decides to take over the world. But that’s the plot in a nutcase.
10/17/08
Top CriticSome nonsense is fun, but this wears you down.
10/17/08
Top CriticA fun techno romp, mixing great bang for your buck with insights into the dangers of restricting civil liberties. Now, anyone for Shia killing blondes dressed as his dead mother?
10/17/08
Top CriticEagle Eye churns and flails and piles on pointless and improbable complications.
10/03/08
Top CriticEagle Eye, with a more nuanced idea of paranoia and the ills of technology gone wild, could have been both entertaining and disturbing. Deafening isn't quite the same thing.
09/26/08
Top CriticIt's a tad long, and it doesn't always add up, but the action sequences are pretty visceral and genuinely exciting.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe pic's first 35 minutes sizzle until a Byzantine plot nudges the story toward near-parody in the final act.
09/26/08
Top CriticThough it aspires to be an intriguing political cautionary tale, the movie is mostly about the feverish and jarringly choreographed chase scenes.
09/25/08
Top CriticThe word 'preposterous' is too moderate to describe Eagle Eye. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline.
09/25/08
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January 07, 2009:
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January 03, 2009:
Text messengers beware, in this wireless espionage romp where Frankenstein is a female, and where Billy Bob gets the best line: I'm not going down in history as the asshole who let this happen. 
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December 22, 2008:
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October 26, 2008:
InLimerick: Text messengers beware, in this wireless espionage romp where Frankenstein is a female, and where Billy Bob gets the best line: I'm not going down in history as the asshole who let this happen.
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