Jerry and Rachel are thus thrown together and forced to outrace police cars at high speed, rob a security truck, dodge federal agents through the baggage-sorting machinery at an airport, and so on.įor their part, the feds, led by Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton), think that Jerry and Rachel are willing accomplices to whatever terrorist organization is pulling the strings. The woman has also contacted Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan), a divorced mother, and threatened to harm her boy, who is away on a band trip, if Rachel does not follow yet another set of directions. Of course, two questions linger, even if they can't really be answered until the final moments of the film: Why does the woman want Jerry to do all these things, and will he ever get control of his life back? And it's not just Jerry whose life is on the line. Somehow, he will always be able to do what she tells him to do. But we, sitting outside his life and watching it-at times through the same security cameras that the woman uses-can sense that no task she gives him will be impossible. Is Jerry nervous and terrified for his life? Heck yeah. I wouldn't exactly call it suspenseful just as, say, Paycheck was a non-suspenseful film because we knew that Ben Affleck had foreseen everything and given himself a way out in each and every case, so, too, Eagle Eye is the sort of film in which the forces manipulating Jerry's life seem so absolutely in-control that we don't really sit on the edge of our seats, so much as we sit back and wait to see how everything will be explained. I mean, when the movie's villain can get a fighter pilot out of the way by activating his ejector seat via remote control, you can only assume there would have been much, much easier ways to get rid of certain other people, too.īut if you have a taste for this sort of nonsense, then all this hyper-implausibility is actually kind of fun. And it turns out the woman has been pulling all these strings in the most contrived manner possible simply to kill certain people who really should have been a whole lot easier to reach. (When high-voltage power lines begin falling from a tower, to punish someone down below, you wonder if the woman or her people placed remote-control detonators up there in advance, and how they knew where the person being punished would be standing.) Smart people who discover that "the grid" has been compromised make cell phone calls to warn each other anyway-calls that are immediately jammed, of course. String(63) "/home/123haus/web//public_html/index.For one thing, the woman at the other end of the phone ends up manipulating things that she really shouldn't have any access to. On the screen Anthony Azizi, Anthony Mackie, Bill Smitrovich, Billy Bob Thornton, Cameron Boyce, Charles Carroll, Dariush Kashani, Deborah Strang, Eric Christian Olsen, Ethan Embry, Jerry Ferrara, Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Madylin Sweeten, Marc Singer, Michael Chiklis, Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Geist, Nicol Paone, Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf, William Sadler live out their roles as in life. Caruso`s ability to set the accents in all the right places made the movie a real piece of work. One of the best movies of 2008, combining all the experience of the film industry of the past years.ĭ.J. This movie stands out among similar films in the genre Action, Mystery, Thriller with its unconventional plot. If you don`t know what to do in the next 118 minutes, devote that time to watching Eagle Eye and you won`t be disappointed. Eagle Eye review by Soap2dayĮagle Eye immerses the viewer in the atmosphere perfectly created by the director. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country’s most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met.
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