I grew impatient watching the summer previews. Films like ‘Eagle Eye’ dazzled me with action and mystery. By fall, I was sorely let down.
‘Eagle Eye’ will only be dazzling studio executives. Surefire box office gold, this studio film is inauthentic and too unbelievable. The film is technology-driven in every sense and the acting is laughable.
Fan favorite Shia LaBeouf is growing up. From Disney’s ‘Even Stevens,’ the box office champion has matured. Sporting a five o’clock shadow, LaBeouf has grown up but his acting hasn’t.
‘ Coming home from his twin brother’s funeral, LaBeouf’s underachieving Jerry Shaw stumbles upon automatic weapons in his apartment. A mysterious woman calls to warn him the FBI are nearby and gives him instructions to escape. Jerry is immediately and unknowingly thrust into a lifestyle of mystery, close calls, and unbelievable stunts.
Arrested and then freed with the help of mystery woman, LaBeouf rendezvous with Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) who is also victimized. Who is this mystery woman? And how does she control stop lights, cranes and news feeds at the precise moments?
Without divulging too many details, the mystery woman and her abilities makes the movie feel inauthentic. People ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ at James Bond’s close calls, but in ‘Eye,’ you won’t be gasping at LaBeouf’s reflexes when he, for example, dives under a falling crane thanks to a female voice helping him.
Besides the overdrawn action sequences, the woman’s identity was the only factor keeping me halfway to the edge of my seat. You find out who or what she is too quickly. It’s like getting a bad Christmas gift ‘- you’re excited to open the present only to be let down. Except here, I don’t have to be polite about it.
The plot becomes a frozen computer: too many things happen at once and it becomes overloaded. It takes twists and turns that leave you only to gasp in boredom at the redundant action scenes. When the film becomes political, you know everything’s unplugged.
The actors try too hard only to be outdone by the special effects and action sequences. LaBeouf’s character is too regular to be an action hero and Monaghan’s shouldn’t be handling an automatic weapon.
Starred in action movies, Monaghan doesn’t bring the realism she showed in ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ or ‘Gone Baby Gone.’
‘ Action-junkies, ‘Eagle Eye’ is a good investment.
Movie-goers looking for any discernible plot, skip this one.

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