Eagle Eye [Blu-ray] starring Shia
LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan,
Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis,
Anthony Mackie
Great Movie
The cell phone thriller is becoming a genre unto itself, and Eagle Eye
should be considered a key example of the form. Frankly preposterous but
compulsively watchable, this movie puts Shia LaBeouf in a mess of trouble
instigated by a mysterious telephone voice. If he doesnt follow orders, dire
things will happen--although when he does follow orders, the
consequences are pretty dire, anyway. Also being blackmailed is a single
mom (Michelle Monaghan) receiving similar phone calls. Why are they
being jerked around by the purring female voice, and why is the road
leading to Washington, D.C.? Actually, you wont have time to contemplate
these questions, because director D.J. Caruso (who guided LaBeouf in
Disturbia) keeps the action going at the customary breakneck pace. This is
a wise move, because the real questions youd likely be asking have to do
with the plausibility of events on a minute-by-minute basis (most notably:
how could Mysterious Phone Voice possibly know that the two pigeons
would survive the hoops she makes them fly through, each one more
death-defying than the last?). The actors tumble through this mayhem like
scattering bowling pins, including Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson
as government agents. Nobody has time to make much of an impression,
and LaBeouf has much less room for puppydog charm than he did in
Disturbia. Even that would be all right within the movies berserk
parameters, but the really irritating thing is the way the tacked-on final
scenes reverse what would have been a heroic climax. No guts, no glory. -
-Robert Horton
Stills from Eagle Eye (Click for larger image)
This was an excellent vehicle for Shia LaBoeuf, who has come a long way,
but is still charming in his sincerity. The Blu-ray, for you HD fans is good,
not great, nothing near Transformers but...
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