Too much of everything

People are voting emotionally.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Shortly after the death of his twin brother things start going wrong for Jerry Shaw in a rather strange way. First he gets home and finds his apartment full of weapons; moments later he gets a call for a woman telling him that he is about to be arrested, which he is. When he uses his 'one phone call' he finds himself talking to her again and she gives him instructions to escape. Meanwhile Rachel Holloman also receives a call telling her that her son's train will derail if she doesn't do as she is told. Soon she is united with Jerry and the two are forced to undertake a mission which will take them to the country's centres of power. As they travel they wonder about the woman guiding them; she appears to be able to access anything computerised; phones, traffic lights, all CCTV and even the cranes at a junk yard.It must be said that the plot of this film is rather silly and I'm sure most viewers will have an idea about the identity of the voice directing Jerry and Rachel long before the characters work it out. These details aren't much of a problem as the action moves along at a cracking pace with lots of exciting action from start to finish. This includes car chases with numerous crashes, a chase through an airport baggage handling area and excitement under the Pentagon and in the US Capitol building. Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are solid as Jerry and Rachel; there are also impressive performances from Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson as the FBI Agent and USAF investigator looking for them. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody looking for some fairly inoffensive brain-in-neutral action; if you are looking for something deep and meaningful look elsewhere.

Eagle Eye is fast-paced with great performances, good editing, directing, e.c.t, the plot is over the top, but so what?! There's a few annoying scenes, one is when Shia LaBeouf's character is at work talking about things that are none of his business - like his co-worker's girlfriend and sex life (dude keep your mouth shut and play cards) second scene is when he's trying to flirt with some girl on the train (please, like she is just going to call some random guy who could be a serial rapist for all she knows), third scene is a little bit later on in the movie when he is sounding like a nagging 90 year old husband telling the woman how to drive (when you watch that high speed car chase scene, the lady is doing a damn good job! and the dude is complaining about "clutching before shifting" or whatever the hell it is, what does it matter at this point, dude?! the talking computer is already instructing to run a red light or whatever, the car is not stopping, you're getting away from the cops, you ain't the one driving, so keep quiet!).As the film goes on we see the relationship between the two main characters, the majority of the time they're at each other's throats and the lady starts running her mouth judging his twin brother (who is deceased and was in the military) while not stopping to think that her son (who is playing an instrument at The White House or wherever it is) could possibly be connected to the current situation.Eagle Eye is a thrill ride that doesn't stop, the characters are constantly on the move trying to obey a damn machine, when you watch this flick for the first time - you don't realise that it's a computer until it's revealed (so there's your plot twist!) There is another twist, but it isn't that exciting or shocking.If you have a list of conspiracy thrillers that you need to watch, add this one.

Eagle Eye is a gut wrenching, heart pounding-thriller from beginning to end. Although stories like this one have been told before, this one really does tell it like no other giving us a perspective that hits home. Eagle Eye is about national security and what would happen if someone evil were to get inside and turn everything upside down on the people in charge of running the country. Now, I cannot say too much without giving the movie away so I'll keep it brief. Eagle Eye has outstanding action scenes and special effects! I believe it has something to offer for everyone. The writing is fair and the music is as well. The acting is believable from the entire cast and for once Shia Labeouf does a grand job of making us care for his characters safety and happiness. There is, however, a little more "language" then I believe necessary. To quote Nathan Wilson "language is necessary to an extent. If you're a cop and see a dead women you're not going to say 'oh darn, he got away again!'" with that being said, I rest my case. I said in the beginning of the review that this movie hits home and I'll tell you why; being a dad and a husband, I see now that I would do just about anything for the safety of my children. Just about. How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Would you kill or find a way out if there was one even though people could still die or get hurt in the end. Don't get me wrong, I love my family to death but this movie pushes the line of how far one can or could go to save them; to the point that makes all other people and priorities irrelevant including the safety of one countries future. We can't always protect our children from all bad things that happen in this fallen world, the best we can do is be there for them if they do get hurt and pick them back up. Eagle Eye stresses that point. I think we should too.

Incompetent as a thriller, mildly interesting as a political allegory, D. J. Caruso's "Eagle Eye" revolves around ARIIA, a supercomputer designed by the US military. Deciding that the executive branch of the US Government is a threat to national security, and justifying its actions based on Section 216 of the Patriot Act, which allows the circumventing of chains of command, ARIIA begins assassinating government officials.Countless real-life intelligence reports have concluded that the "defence policies" of the United States are in fact the chief causes of blowback, violence, terrorism and threats to US citizens. ARIIA's "revolutionary" acts on behalf of "we the people" are therefore never fully condemned by Caruso. Indeed, ARIIA at one point cites the Declaration of Independence ("whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"). This is fairly novel for a mainstream thriller."Is it not also permissible to kill a president, Member of Parliament, bureaucrat, or police officer from a democratic regime, if killing is necessary to stop them from harming the innocent?" philosopher Andrew Altman, author of "Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World", wonders. To many, the answer would be no. Killing a Hitler or Gestapo agent to stop the murdering of innocent people is typically deemed permissible. But knocking off a US president in order to stop, say, an invasion of the Philippines or the funding of terrorist cells, is a no-no. The assumption is that only non-violent resistance to these injustices is permissible, and that democratic government agents enjoy special immunity against being killed in self-defence or the defence of others. These democracies, meanwhile, always operate under the assumption that their own violence is permissible. In "Eagle Eye", ARIIA doesn't abide by these hypocrisies, though the film ultimately betrays its convictions. It ends, after-all, with its heroes saving the President of the United States – who in real life is always the chieftain of extralegal executions – from ARIIA's targeted assassinations. Coups, regime changes and murder are wrong, "Eagle Eye" admits, though mostly when directed at first world white dudes."Eagle Eye" was released in 2008, five years before the lid was blown on a global spy-network run primarily by the United States' National Security Agency. Designed for global surveillance, this ARIIA-resembling network intercepts mountains of data, recording most global internet and telecommunications traffic, as well as international traffic flowing via undersea fibre optic cables. Email records, telephone conversations, shopping records, medical records, banking records, internet records, text messages, digital profiles...virtually everything with a digital or electromagnetic footprint is automatically gobbled up by this network. Capable of simultaneously recording and storing every phone-call occurring within entire continents, this network extends across the planet, gathering data and meta-data on millions of ordinary people around the world. It also tracks cellphone locations, can hack cellphone conversations, and is capable of hacking its way into most encrypted consumer products. Such data mining occurs thanks to NSA alliances with major companies (Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Youtube, AOL, Skype etc) and major countries (Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Israel). The NSA also spies on and collects data stored within the data centres of major corporations, giving it access to the daily habits, thoughts, words and actions of billions. Currently this spy-network has numerous ancillary branches (PRISM, Tempora, Stellar Wind, Dishfire, MUSCULAR, Project 6, Stateroom, ECHELON, CO-TRAVELER), most of which have since changed their names.The NSA has defended its networks, stating that it "stops terrorists", but revelation after revelation has shown that they have no impact on terrorism, and are primarily used to spy on civilians, political activists, diplomats, commercial entities, environmental groups, corporations and global policy makers. The NSA, in short, is in the business of economic espionage, protecting Western mega-corporate, mega-trade and mega-banking interests. "The police are the right arm of corporate power," Jack London wrote in 1902; the NSA now functions the same way. Consider, for example, project OLYMPIA, which exclusively spies on Brazil's ministry of mining and energy. And even when NSA intel is used in "warzones" to kill "terrorists" ("We kill people based on meta-data." - Michael Hayden, NSA director), such extra-legal killings are "validated" via "inference" not "proof". The point? "Eagle Eye's" ARIIA is already a reality. Minus, of course, ARIIA's conflicted sense of morality.6/10 – "Eagle Eye" was loosely based on Isaac Asimov's "All the Troubles of the World".