MOVIE REVIEW - Eagle Eye

When it rains, it pours it seems. With not much at the box office the last few weeks, Steven Spielberg's, Eagle Eye leads the weekends charge of big new movies. If it's action you're looking for, you're looking for Eagle Eye.

Eagle Eye is the fictitious story of privacy laws gone amok, and the development of a "super spy computer" named Eagle Eye. It was designed to be able to access all power grids, traffic cams, cell phones, and anything else that can received a signal, to help the Federal Government in the war on terror. But someone, or something has hacked into Eagle Eye, and now it's a rogue player that recruits innocent civilians to carry out it's programmed agenda against the United States. Sound complicated? It is to tell, but not to see.

Starring Shia Labeouf, Michelle Monaghan, and Billy Bob Thornton, EE is a thriller action movie. To be honest EE is captivating, and seldom slow. The well thought out story does keep you guessing till the end, and a twist here and turn there and you've got a pretty solid movie. In typical Spielberg form the star of this movie is the movie and story and not the actors. All are solid, but there's not a lot of acting here, EE is an action movie from start to finish.

I think Eagle Eye is supposed to be a wake up call or even scary to the viewer. A flaw possible? I think by now we are all aware that anytime we make a call, or swipe a gas card, credit card, or drive through a school zone and the list goes on and on, we can be tracked and monitored and information gathered. I think this is common knowledge. We may not like it, but it's the world we live in now. As far as the "scare factor" goes, this movie would have been far scarier 5 years ago, when many were still in the dark about this fact. But it doesn't take away from EE, but it just may take a little of the bite out of the broth for some.

Eagle Eye, a good night at the movies. If you're a big fan of action, big government movies, this is your cup of tea. Although you may never look at your cell phone the same way again!