Eagle eye is a movie in this vein, with a strong conspiracyparanoia angle, but its sheer silliness and dumbness are a drag. Eagle eye was released in 2008 on friday, september 26, 2008 there were 6 other movies released on the same date, including nights in rodanthe, choke and the lucky ones. Eagle eye treats the audience like its main characters and pushes us into action with little reason for being there. Well i watched the movie eagle eye like two times now and i still dont get the whole story line. Jerry and rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Eagle eye is a raceagainsttime thriller starring shia labeouf, michelle monaghan, rosario dawson, anthony mackie and billy bob thornton. As most of you already know, opening this friday is director d. Desert dunes dawn close on a wooden stickfigure toy, held by a six year old boy. The netflix documentary interviews multiple people who were. Mike lasalle, writing for the san francisco chronicle last week, agreed. First and foremost, it is cinematic art that grabs and holds your attention. This movie displays supercomputer hack on all networks and military networks.
With eagle eye hes making his play to become the next michael bay. Autonomous reconnaissance intelligence integration analyst. Eagle eye is a preposterously plotted thriller that borrows heavily from other superior films. The power of the unseen voice is so complete that it verges on ridiculous. Everything you need to know about eagle eye movie 2008.
Fandango fanalert sign up for a fanalert and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. Jerry shaw labeouf and rachel holloman monaghan are. Stitching together threads from the cluelesscivilianontherun motif of hitchcocks north by northwest and the supersmart hal computer from 2001. The film is a raceagainsttimethriller that stars shia labeouf and michelle monaghan as two strangers who. Eagle eye is an awesome action movie for families with kids and up.
Concluding with a muted, awkward ending, the story tries again to make it about. His twin brother, ethan, a lieutenant in the air force and general overachiever, has been killed. The plot turns upon a college dropout shia labeouf returning to his chicago home for the funeral of his twin brother, a brilliant air force. A paranoid political thriller that is somewhat more paranoid than political, eagle eye could be onto something when it considers that cell phones might be controlling you, rather than the other way around. The simple fact is that the story behind eagle eye makes absolutely no sense, the characters are paper thin and, dare i say it, even the action is poorly edited. He was subsequently killed when a large truck broadsided his car at an intersection.
She was created to serve as a mega computer as part of the eagle eye program that went beta testing in the. Now, sociable robots meet our gaze, speak to us, and learn to recognize us. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes jerry and rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence. S ecurity, in this case of a national kind, is also at the centre of dj carusos eagle eye, a hightech thriller devoted to the pursuit of mfi maximum feasible incredibility and produced by.
Do you think the concept of the movie eagle eye can happen. In particular i found shia labeouf very believable in the main role as jerry shaw. Can someone explain what the movie is about and explain the story line please. The plot follows two strangers who must go on the run together after receiving a mysterious phone call from an unknown woman who is using. The reason why it says it is doing this, is because the executive branch has become too powerful. Indeed, this movie has a lot of action, twists, and turns. Subliminal themes and connections between eagle eye and. There is no truth to the rumor that free frontal lobotomies will be performed at the.
The movie casts the always engaging shia labeouf as jerry shaw, a hapless nobody caught up in. Eagle eye is one of finest hightech films i have ever seen. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing eagle eye near you. The film gives audience members a deeper insight into the inner workings of fyre festival and provides a definitive timeline to when the idea of fyre and fyre festival came to be and the disaster that was created in the summer of 2016. Eagle eye following the death of his twin brother, jerry shaw labeouf is framed as a terrorist. Eagle eye has real cars and buildings and trains and cnn and stuff, and purports to take place in the real world. The premise of the movie is about a supercomputer that helps make probability decisions on terrorism.
Rachel has an 8yearold kid, and jerry is college aged, so the age difference is probably about 10 years. A critical look at ted bundy in the media eagle eye. Another boy grabs the toy away and runs off, laughing children are playing under a cluster of date palms, part of a small desert commune somewhere in the middle east. The consensus over at is that eagle eye is a preposterously plotted thriller. Synopsis jerry shaw shia labeouf and rachel holloman michelle monaghan are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. The story, plot, connectivity, creativity, ingenuity and all other matters that make up a good thinking mans film were outstanding. But to the people who say a system like that could already exist, i usually disagree because not that many things around cities are really online or connected to one another. Shia labeouf plays jerry, a young slacker whose highachieving twin. With the right technological platform, i personally believe it could happen in the future. It is pg because of non graphic violence and some strong language. In eagle eye, once jerry and rachel began to refuse to respond to the woman, the effectiveness of the havoc was reduced. When it feels the president and his cabinet is a threat to the public good, the computer plans its own attack on the presidents cabinet.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Eagle eye has enough techno babble to appear to be a scifi type flick, but most who actually understand the theories behind science fiction are likely to groan with boredom here. Here we see for the most part the actual actors trekking through real. Turkle states, computers no longer wait for humans to project meaning onto them. Check out movie behind the scenes, interviews, movie red carpet.
A did not turn against her masters she just had a liberal interpretation of the lengths she was allowed to go. View eagle eye 2008 photos from red carpet premieres, film festivals, award shows and more on fandango. After viewing the memory card, perez calls morgan and tells him that ethan worked on a project called eagle eye for the secretary of defense and was trying to stop the project. However, if youre the kind who loves to analyze and try to guess the next twist, you might be disappointed when the movie s conspirator is revealed and then leaps off the. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and thats borderline. Michelle monaghan at the california premiere of eagle eye. All of which might be a worthwhile undertaking, if the movie itself were credible for more than a microsecond. And then, as parliament considered the questions raised by the joint committee on human rights, the excellent film eye in the sky was running in cinemas across the country. Arrested by the fbi, he is sprung by a female caller and coerced, along with a single mum. In the plot of eagle eye,there are elements taken from the books written by william gibson,the video game portal and movies like enemy of the state,i robot and. In the fastpaced raceagainsttimethriller, eagle eye, two strangers become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. E agle eye is the kind of movie that will appeal to the crowd who loves loud noise and action.
Caruso disturbia, penned by no less than five writers, and executive produced by steven spielberg, eagle eye is a cyberspace cat and mouse caper where humans find. The autonomous reconnaissance intelligence integration analyst is an artificial intelligence that features in the movie eagle eye. It wrings its hands over our techdependent ways and frets over the fact that most of us can be monitored almost constantly, what with video cameras watching as we work in our cubicles and drive through intersections, and computers dutifully. The recent release of the documentary conversations with a killer. Eagle eye 2008 premiere photos special event photos. Eye in the sky is an unmissable, morally tense, thriller. If you are this kind of viewer, youll love this movie. Death by a thousand cuts hyperkinetic jumpcut editing and a clangorous mission impossiblestyle score cant cover up the essential idiocy of d. Carusos second outing, not only in pgrated territory his previous films included rrated features like taking lives, two for the money, and the salton sea, but also with actor shia labeouf in the lead. The word preposterous is too moderate to describe eagle eye. Eagle eye is an intense scifi tale with two obvious messages. In the movie, eagle eye 2008 the main characters are being manipulated by a big computer who is trying to wipe out the main people in the executive branch of government. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed. The eagle is a ripsnorting adventure tale of the sort made before cgi, 3d and alphabet soup in general took the fun out of moviegoing.
The autonomous reconnaissance intelligence integration aria was a powerful supercomputer developed by the united states and was in use by the 21st century. The tagteam script from john glenn, travis adam wright, hillary seitz and dan mcdermott doles out plot points on an asneeded basis while. For those who havent seen it, basically, its about a very advanced computer. Ted bundy, the notorious american serial killer and rapist of at least thirty young women and girls, has been a hot topic of conversation since this past january, which marks the thirtyyear anniversary of his execution by the state. Billie bob thorton, who plays a government agent, is also good in the film. So much does it evoke the energy of traditional swordandshield movies that i had to bring the term ripsnorting out of retirement.
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