Eagle Eye Review
Peter Richardson
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Entertainment
Described as "Jaws" for the 21st century "Eagle Eye" is an action packed, technological thriller that stars a complete arsenal of action stars. Based on an idea from legendary movie man Steven Spielberg, "Eagle Eye" brings up and coming Shia LaBeouf and throws him into a sticky situation against FBI agent Billy Bob Thornton, Air Force agent Rosario Dawson and Secretary of Defense Michael Chiklis. Starting out with a bang, "Eagle Eye" keeps the pace up and never slows down.
"Eagle Eye" begins with a brief introduction to lost and confused twenty-something, Jerry Shaw who cant seem to find his way in life. Just when everything seems to be at rock bottom for Jerry, it somehow gets even worse. Jerry walks into his apart-
ment and finds loads of very illegal materials have been delivered while he was out. As Jerry is opening all the boxes and becoming very scared, he gets a call from a mysterious woman who tells Jerry that he has to leave for the FBI is on its way. Jerry eventually meets up with single mother Rachel Holloman and together they try to figure out what exactly is going on with their lives.
Spielberg says that he came up with the idea for this movie over ten yearS ago, but he waited to do this film until now so that it did not seem like science fiction. All of the technological feats of this film are based on current technology and lend an aura of plausibility to all of the action in this movie. While some of the plot points and dramatics are obviously a bit over the top, they are close enough to reality that they do not detract at all from the story.
"Eagle Eye's" story is fast paced and riveting throughout. Though the big plot surprise is not much of a surprise at all for most astute viewers there are still a couple entertaining plot twists laced through the tale. The modern setting and terrorism back-story is of course very poignant at times like these and some plot points based on the Patriot Act may seem like fiction but are actually factually based. The story of "Eagle Eye" serves its action movie purpose fine and while it certainly won't win any awards, it is quite entertaining from start to finish.
"Eagle Eye" begins with a brief introduction to lost and confused twenty-something, Jerry Shaw who cant seem to find his way in life. Just when everything seems to be at rock bottom for Jerry, it somehow gets even worse. Jerry walks into his apart-
ment and finds loads of very illegal materials have been delivered while he was out. As Jerry is opening all the boxes and becoming very scared, he gets a call from a mysterious woman who tells Jerry that he has to leave for the FBI is on its way. Jerry eventually meets up with single mother Rachel Holloman and together they try to figure out what exactly is going on with their lives.
Spielberg says that he came up with the idea for this movie over ten yearS ago, but he waited to do this film until now so that it did not seem like science fiction. All of the technological feats of this film are based on current technology and lend an aura of plausibility to all of the action in this movie. While some of the plot points and dramatics are obviously a bit over the top, they are close enough to reality that they do not detract at all from the story.
"Eagle Eye's" story is fast paced and riveting throughout. Though the big plot surprise is not much of a surprise at all for most astute viewers there are still a couple entertaining plot twists laced through the tale. The modern setting and terrorism back-story is of course very poignant at times like these and some plot points based on the Patriot Act may seem like fiction but are actually factually based. The story of "Eagle Eye" serves its action movie purpose fine and while it certainly won't win any awards, it is quite entertaining from start to finish.
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