Eagle Eye (2008)

Aimless underachiever, Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) returns home after the funeral of his overachieving twin brother to find his apartment filled with weapons and bomb-making ingredients. Single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) is out for night with friends after sending her young son off to Washington with his school. A phone call from a mysterious voice, thrusts these two strangers into a series of increasingly dangerous situations and into the eye of various law enforcement agencies. Evading Agent Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) and Air Force liaison Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson) while working to prevent catastrophic political assassinations and clear their names, pits Jerry and Rachel against every day technologies.

Eagle Eye is an effective, if average, thriller. If you successfully enjoy the popcorn and suspend reality, you'll enjoy it more. Shia LeBeouf is on par to becoming a leading man and even with this screenplay, LeBeouf obviously enjoys himself and makes the best. Monaghan is believable and sorely underrated. Thornton, aging well, turns in a nice, if rote, supporting role.

Loaded with intense and unrelenting action sequences, Eagle Eye entertains. As much as I want to spoil the movie's ending, I trust my readers are smart enough to figure this one out in ten. Therein lies, my one disappointment. The story...

It could have been much more {like Enemy of the State}. It's as if our writers couldn't determine what to do with the protagonist. As with Taking Lives, director D.J. Caruso is there to edit and cajole solid performances.

Eagle Eye has summer blockbuster all over it with explosions, action sequences, and scoring to equal any Die Hard or Armageddon. The film never reaches, but rather languishes in what it was meant to be... pure popcorn entertainment.