Review: Eagle Eye

I have been excited for this movie ever since the previews came out so I rushed out to see it the moment I could. I was expecting an action packed thriller full of suspense and twists and I was not disappointed. The beginning of the movie did throw me off a little bit though, because it was kind of slow getting started and actually somewhat sad. I felt like I waited for the action to start for awhile, but once it did, it never stopped!

Shia LaBeouf does a great job in this movie as a kid who has left home and stepped away from his family to live his own life and then suddenly has his twin brother die, which devastates him, and then starts to get threatening phone calls and has to all of a sudden risk his life for some unknown reason. It is amazing to watch him move from action sequences to emotional moments with such ease. Michelle Monaghan plays a single mom who starts receiving the same phone calls as Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) which threaten her son’s safety unless she cooperates. Eventually the two of them meet up and find themselves caught in a tangled web, taking directions from a stranger and having no control over what happens. They receive directions from electronic signs in the city and stranger’s cell phones and traffic lights change for them as needed; someone is watching them at every moment and controlling not only them, but everything around them.

I recommend this movie to anyone who loves suspense and twists and car chases and plenty of action. It definitely will not disappoint you!


****Warning: Spolier Alert****

My heart never stopped pounding during all the suspense and it didn’t stop even through the end. The plot unfolds and it turns out to be the computer who is trying to change the government and it is all a plan to kill off the top 12 people (president, vice president, etc.). I kind of didn’t like the fact that it was another one of those movies where the computer becomes smarter than the people, but it was different enough then all those movies because it had a little more plot and twists and details. At the end, Shia LaBeouf gets shot and he should obviously be dead but then he is alive at the end of the movie and receives the Medal of Honor. I heard a lot of people complaining about how he survived being shot multiple times and then just being alive at the end without an explanation. But before he gets shot, he takes out a security guard and puts on his uniform so I assumed that he also put on the security guard’s bullet proof vest and I believe that is how he survived.