Eagle Eye

Directed by:

D.J. Caruso

Screenplay by:

John Glenn

Travis Wright

Quote:

You have been activated. . .

Do you ever wish that you could just disconnect from the world?  Or, more importantly, the technology of everyday life?

This movie may have you considering it.

Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is having a very bad week.  He doesn’t have money for rent.  His “perfect” twin brother just died, leaving him with a father who quietly wishes it was him.  If that wasn’t bad enough, he returns to his apartment to find that it is full of materials to make weapons of mass destruction.

I’d like to think that a reasonably intelligent person would leave the apartment and consider calling the authorities.  Jerry is not that person.  He starts to open up the crates and touch the hardware, then receives the infamous creepy phone call we’ve all seen in the trailers.  Along his perilous but preposterous journey he meets Rachael, (Michelle Monaghan) a single mother who has also been ensnared by the creepy cell-phone woman who seems to be able to track their every word and movement.  They are set on a frenzied journey which they cannot escape – if they quit, they or their loved ones will die.  (Think Forbin Project meets The Fugitive).

I know that it’s the cool thing to see the latest action movie at the IMAX, but I found all the jump cuts during the chase sequences to be big ‘ol blurs of noise, and I had excellent seats.  I’ll see it again on a standard screen later.  The movie is of course, predictable in certain places and themes, but was very entertaining and at times even patriotic.  There are also great scenes of Chicago – they shot a chase scene in I Talk’s neighborhood!  I have a feeling though, that the ending wasn’t the original one, and that either a focus group or nervous producer changed it for the teenagers and dimwits out there that they need so desperately to make this film #1 in the box office.  Watch it and you’ll see what I mean.