Eagle Eye (2008)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 179
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 132
Eagle Eye is a preposterously plotted thriller that borrows heavily from other superior films.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 31
Eagle Eye is a preposterously plotted thriller that borrows heavily from other superior films.
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Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star in Disturbia director D.J. Caruso's race-against-time thriller concerning two strangers thrust together by a mysterious telephone call, and their frantic efforts to discover why they have inexplicably become the nation's most wanted fugitives. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) were complete strangers at the beginning of the day, but that changed the instant a strange woman called to threaten both their lives and the lives of their loved
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Cast
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Shia LaBeouf
Jerry Shaw -
Michelle Monaghan
Rachel Holloman -
Rosario Dawson
Zoe Perez -
Michael Chiklis
Defense Secretary Ca... -
Anthony Mackie
Major William Bowman -
Billy Bob Thornton
Agent Thomas Morgan -
Anthony Azizi
Ranim Khalid -
Cameron Boyce
Sam Holloman -
Ethan Embry
Agent Toby Grant -
Lynn Cohen
Mrs. Wierzbowski -
Bill Smitrovich
Admiral Thompson -
Charles Carroll
Mr. Miller -
William Sadler
Jerry's dad -
Deborah Strang
Jerry's mom -
Fahim Fazli
Al Kohei -
Jerry Ferrara
Luis -
Eric Christian Olsen
Craig -
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All Critics (181) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (132) | DVD (23)
A warning about the threat in our own backyard -- but as often is the case with Hollywood blockbusters, the warning comes across more like fear-mongering than constructive social criticism. Personally, I prefer my cinema sans mongering.
Top CriticIt's going to make you want to take the batteries out of your cell phone.
An intelligent nail biter.
What's galling about Eagle Eye is that it could easily have been an entertaining film without constantly yielding to the impulse to blow stuff up.
To call Eagle Eye derivative is an understatement; the greater sin is how snoozy this Spielberg-produced anxiety drama feels, even with all sorts of objects flying toward your head.
Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed?
As the film drags on, there are several nauseatingly dogmatic moments that make you feel like you're trapped in some kind of uber-liberal rally.
Eagle Eye isn't awful, just trite ... it suffers from the same problem most high concept films have; it's all smoke, but no fire.
The trouble with Shia? He's no Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant. And as for Caruso, well, Brian De Palma can rest easy.
Everything's chopped up into those woozy, bite-size snippets of flashing lights and spinning tires, thrown into a blender and then regurgitated on screen.
Eagle Eye is a totally derivative, unoriginal techno-thriller, cribbing scenes and ideas from better films. ... But it's also thoroughly entertaining.
...one could certainly do far worse as far as movies of this ilk go.
This is nobody's idea of an intelligent political thriller (or satire), but it is an orgy for the senses.
So colossally ridiculous (and transparently derivative) that willing suspension of disbelief is a fool's errand. [Blu-ray]
Attempting to tap into the public's collective fears and suspicions comes D.J. Caruso's preposterous Eagle Eye, an action film with plenty of thrills but I have no idea what alternate reality it's set in.
What, you can't relate to someone being controlled by an omniscient machine?
...one long, hyperkinetic chase, with the audience wondering what in the heck is happening.
Lowest-common-denominator filmmaking at its most discouraging, with makers who believe moviegoers too stupid to think, so instead opt for constant adrenal gland stimulation.
Pay heed to the movie's warning: Technological advancements might indeed become a concern in the future, especially if they allow for greater mass production of duds like this one.
The cast is not the problem. They are are merely pawns in this cluttered, Ritalin-infused action film that stretches plausibility so often that it would be more accurately described as science fiction.
Eagle Eye occupies a treacherous middle ground. It isn't credible enough to work as a thriller and isn't ridiculous enough to work as a spoof.
The morons going to Eagle Eye are the ones who would most benefit from its message in spoon-fed form.
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- Jerry Shaw: You think I'm a terrorist?
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- Jerry Shaw: Potus Triple-One.
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- Agent Thomas Morgan: If you're staring at me, it better be because I'm the suspect. If not, get back to work or I swear you're all demoted to something that involves touching shit with your hands!
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- Jerry Shaw: You know you got the wrong guy right?
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