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87
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86
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84
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83
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83
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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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74
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70
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69
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64
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45
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42
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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Eagle Eye
DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language
Starring
Shia LaBeouf,
Michelle Monaghan,
Rosario Dawson,
Michael Chiklis,
Anthony Mackie,
and
Billy Bob Thornton
In the fast-paced race-against-time-thriller, Eagle Eye, two strangers become the pawns of a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. Realizing they are being used to further her diabolical plot, they must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Mystery
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Dan McDermott
Hillary Seitz
Travis Wright
John Glenn
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| DIRECTED BY: |
D.J. Caruso
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 23, 2008
Theatrical: September 26, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
118 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Empire
Ian Freer
A fun techno romp, mixing great bang for your buck with insights into the dangers of restricting civil liberties. Now, anyone for Shia killing blondes dressed as his dead mother?
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie is so engrossing as an intellectual puzzle and such a solid thriller in every other department that it's probably actor-proof.
67
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Good, manic fun plus a heavy dose of political intrigue adding up to two hours of clamorous, mind-numbing nonsense.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Monaghan gives a solid performance, and Billy Bob Thornton has sarcastically funny bits as an FBI agent.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
What Eagle Eye wants to do is show us technology's dark side: all the stuff that's there to make our lives easier - ATMs, PDAs, iPods, GPS, cell phones, PCs, "smart" houses - turned against us in a vast conspiracy.
63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Eagle Eye has half an idea in its head, but over two hours there's no time to complete or explore it, since the movie isn't just a chase but a combination steeplechase and destruction derby.
63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A movie only a copyright lawyer could love. It strip-mines at least three Hitchcock classics - "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man," and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - then commits unlawful assault on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for the heck of it.
60
Film Threat
Mark Bell
In the end, the film isn't a complete waste of your time, and it is a neat little walk down a Patriot Act assisted cyber-terrorist "what if..." scenario, but don't expect anything brilliant.
60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
LaBeouf shambles through the movie with an endearingly lost quality -- his savoir faire is of the hangdog kind, but it pretty much works. And Monaghan, with that upturned nose and those mischievous eyes, always looks like a woman in search of trouble.
50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
With its array of chases and shootouts and a sinister political plot, the movie at least holds your attention and keeps things brisk-ish. But every scene still bears the tags of the place from which it was stolen.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
With less expensive actors, it might just have been called Chase Movie, and played for laughs.
50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A terrorist thriller that isn't so much suspenseful as overbearing. Though it aspires to be an intriguing political cautionary tale, the movie is mostly about the feverish and jarringly choreographed chase scenes.
50
Variety
Robert Koehler
The picture's first 35 minutes sizzle until a Byzantine plot nudges the story toward near-parody in the final act.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The word preposterous is too moderate to describe Eagle Eye. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline. It's not an assault on intelligence. It's an assault on consciousness.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
At least LaBeouf makes for a likable hero. He's got the same kind of easy, natural charisma as Will Smith -- who, come to think of it, starred in another techno-paranoia thriller, "Enemy of the State," that Eagle Eye strongly resembles.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie doesn't have three brain cells to rub together, but the premise carries it a long way.
50
Washington Post
Neely Tucker
A sometimes entertaining flick that makes a lot of noise but doesn't have much to say.
50
Slate
Josh Levine
Quips alone do not a popcorn-movie star make. In this age of post-steroidal leading men, you don't need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to carry a movie, but you do need to have some presence.
45
NPR
Bob Mondello
Idiotic, if reasonably kinetic, Eagle Eye -- in which Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan spend the better part of two hours urgently answering phone calls and dodging hurtling machinery -- is every bit as over-edited as it is under-thunk.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A brain-squandering thriller.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
A shrill, far-fetched thriller.
40
LA Weekly
Robert Wilonsky
From tepid start to laughable middle to thudding finish (and the final two minutes smack of a reshoot), it's nothing but a herky-jerky clusterfuck of noise and nonsense.
38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The movie itself is hyperactive and a jumble.
38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There is no truth to the rumor that free frontal lobotomies will be performed at the entrance to all theaters showing Eagle Eye.
38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Noisy, derivative and thoroughly preposterous even by the standards of 21st-century action movies.
38
Premiere
Eric Kohn
It's an empty-headed look at a national problem with modern surveillance society, but if everyone acted as stupidly as the incredulous screenplay would have you believe, then it's safe to say the movie inadvertently reflects, rather than critiques, the insanity of our times.
38
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is?
30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Caruso and Spielberg probably thought they were reviving the paranoid style of 70s political thrillers, but their story is so implausible it barely provokes a tremor.
25
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It'd probably feel just a little bit timelier and more relevant if it took place in a universe that bore even the faintest resemblance to our own.
20
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
See, everyone complains about humans in movies but no one does anything about it, so it fell to Eagle Eye to make everything laughably, ridiculously fake.
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