Eagle Eye

"Eagle Eye" is an over-the-top action thriller that becomes less and less believable as it flies along. In the end, I was laughing in disbelief at what had just unfolded.

Shia LaBeouf stars as Jerry Shaw, a down-on-his-luck guy whose identical twin brother has just died in a car accident. Returning home after the funeral, Jerry finds his apartment loaded with bomb making materials, high powered weapons, and instructions on how to cause massive destruction. Before he can even comprehend what he's looking at, he receives a phone call from a mysterious voice telling him to run. It's from this point on that the action doesn't stop.

As this is unfolding, another unknowing person (Michelle Monaghan) gets a phone call from the same mysterious voice. This time the voice is giving her directions of what to do, threatening to kill her son if she doesn't comply. The voice eventually brings the woman and Jerry together for an adventure taking them from Chicago to Washington, DC, constantly under the watchful eye of the voice on the other end of the phone.

While the situations that the two find themselves in do create great chase scenes and incredible explosions, each scene seems to try to outdo the other. Just when I thought watching the two sneak onto an Air Force cargo plane seemed implausible, there was the scene with the airborne drone shooting missiles at Jerry in a DC tunnel. And that was before both characters manage to get into the State of the Union address, which leads to........... haha, I won't give that part away.

Suffice it to say, the storyline is fairly ridiculous. It's as if the director didn't think you'd get the moral of the story, that Big Brother is always watching and can see everything, unless you saw it at least 20 times. LaBeouf is the strongest part of the entire movie, and he carries it well. It's what plays out that I couldn't hold onto. While not a complete turkey, "Eagle Eye" never soars very high. Wait for On Demand. I give it a C.

"Eagle Eye" is rated PG-13 with a running time of 1 hour 58 minutes.