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Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

heckl This is a modern version of the Enemy of the state by Tony Scott. I could be, becuase we are ten years later. This is a good movie, but nothing special. D.J. Caruso isn't Tony Scott, he was legendary, a master of movies. And ten years after it came out I watched it. Now we are after an NSA scandal and those things in screen are very natural for everyone. And something came to my mind, I checked two dates, this came out 2008, 3 years later came Person of Interest a very-very similar TV show. So I can say this is a forerunner of that.

Nicole C The film is well crafted and the narrative style complements the story. As the audience is also somewhat left in the dark as to what is happening, it helps us engage more into the lives of the characters of Shaw and Holloway. This makes the audience sympathize with them, since we get quite a bit of background information from both, and they connect through necessity. LaBeouf and Monaghan do a good job with their characters. LaBeouf plays both Jerry Shaw and the twin, and I guess there is a bit of distinction between the two characters. We don't see enough of the twin, but he did sufficiently well in separating the personality of the two characters. Monaghan plays the worried and loving mother well, though this gender stereotype with the woman having the child, and the man being a lone wolf is getting tiresome. The action and visual effects are great in this. The movie is quite fast-paced and slows at times, but is overall very engaging. The chase scenes are exciting and some even nerve-wrecking. Cinematography and editing make these scenes more intense, as for example, we are in the car when a crash happens which gives the impression that we are in the crash and makes us tense up. The story is pretty original, putting a little twist in the rise and fall of humanity and the relationship with technology. However, there is some ideological patriotism going on, and I guess they needed the military input to generate the story, but it could be done differently too. This just makes it another movie about saving the country, i.e. America.Overall, an exciting film with great action, acting and a intriguing story. Read more movie reviews at: championangels.wordpress.com

Prismark10 Eagle Eye is a high tech concept thriller. Shia LaBeouf finds out that his identical twin brother has died. After the funeral he discovers money has been deposited in his account, bomb making material in his apartment and a mysterious woman phones him that the police are on their way to arrest him.Michelle Monaghan plays a single mom whose son is off to play a concert in Washington also receives a phone call from the same woman and she is also coerced to follow instructions or her son will be killed.The film is a preposterous techno thriller of a military supercomputer out of control which can dominate things not even on the grid including power lines (although technically that is on the grid!)Eagle Eye was at one time slated to be directed by Steven Spielberg and is inspired by an Isaac Asimov story. I guess Spielberg felt that the screenplay was never going to meet with his standards. Director DJ Caruso keeps at the film moving at a frenetic place so you never realise how implausible the film is. However there is little chemistry between Monaghan and LaBeouf and you get a feeling that many good actors are wasted.

Alenbalz A super computer that can control every electrical device on the planet, needs the help of two reluctant, untrained and unreliable civilians to carry out it's plan. That should tell you just how stupid this movie is going to be. Of course it's a male and female who are Strangers to each other, so you have to wait and wonder will they or won't they get romantically involved. It takes quite a while to find out what it is the supercomputer has planned, but from then on, it's rather predictable, as two ordinary people manage to become and do what highly trained military personnel can't. Of course the computer has the same shortcomings of many people and politicians, who believe that the end justifies the means, despite the fact that this whole drama (plot) started because the computer disagreed with an executive decision of the president. Lots of gratuitous car chases and crashes(for those who like that sort of thing). Lots of intrigue and suspense, before it becomes obvious a computer is calling the shots. Lots of outlandish and highly improbable scenes and stunts. Take it for what it is, far fetched action packed Hollywood fantasy.