Eric Michael Halderman's Movie Reviews and occasional Comments on other topics in the Entertainment Worlds, Television, Film and Life in General.
Monday, October 5, 2009
DVD Review: "EAGLE EYE" Score: C+
I don't really see the appeal of Shia Labooooff as the lead of any film. He is the same character in everything. This one sets out to have the "Eagle Eye in the sky" track and control everything in the universe to get Shia's twin brother character to the supercomputer to authorize a government regime termination that his now dead twin has blocked. SPOILER ALERT: Now what started out as a cool premise, an evil secret organization tracking you and making you do stuff to further their cause, helping you along the way quickly fades away in a cop-out when its revealed that its a Super Computer Artificial intelligence behind it all, and the movie becomes a mish-mash rehash of the 80's Matthew Broderick movie WAR GAMES. Overall there are some nice action sequences, but everything is too convenient. One mistake and the whole thing would be over, or if they just decided to go out into the woods away from anything electronic. The addition of the girl was completely unneeded and really made no sense other than to have it be a boy/girl team being chased. Had this been a bit like BOURNE IDENTITY with a evil group (not a single malfunctioning AI computer) this could have been a better film.
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