![]() It is becoming all to clear that Hollywood is a bunch of America hating chicken shits. This movie even takes a quick jab at Britain’s intelligence gathering as they were the ones supplying Bush with much of his evidence of Iraq’s WMD’s. With subtlety thrown out the window, Eagle Eye, thinly masked as an action thriller, is nothing more than an indictment of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war with shoddy information. In typical liberal fashion, the United States is the evil, bad guy and not the terrorists attacking us. The computer, programmed to protect the United States, determines that the best way to protect the United States from the terrorists, is to kill the members of the current administration, who made the decision to kill a man they did not know for sure was a terrorist. The President says to take him out anyway, thus gettting the plot moving.Īfter it is discovered that the man killed was not a terrorists, all kinds of terrorists attack are carried out against the United States in retaliation. A analytical defense computer, created by Jerry’s twin brother, warns them to abort the mission. The film opens with a scene of Americans deciding whether or not to assassinate a middle eastern man they believe to be a terrorists. I am going to spoil a plot twist as it is the source of my disdain for this movie. You never have too much time to think about all of the plot holes. The set up is fairly preposterous but the action and pacing are so good. It was my fourteen year old's turn to pick the movie, so I ended up watching it. I was not thrilled to see this movie, as the commercials made it seem like one of those films that is too far out there to believe. ![]() They soon have the police and FBI on their trail as they find themselves breaking all kinds of laws to make the voice happy. He is soon joined by a woman who has likewise been forced to do whatever is asked of her. One day he gets a phone call and is forced into doing the bidding of a voice over the phone. Jerry is a college drop out working behind a counter in a copy store. With Eagle Eye though, Hollywood snuck one in on me. We won’t divulge their destination, other than to note the looming presence of Hal 9000’s overachieving female cousin, the all-knowing eye in the middle of this Patriot Act-inspired political storm.I have been purposely avoiding most of the blatant anti-America films that Hollywood has been putting out in the last couple of years. ![]() blackmailed) for a “patriotic” mission by a mysterious female voice who has the ability to control trains, power grids, electronic billboards, television monitors and probably the drive-through line at Starbucks, for all we know.įellow pawn Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) joins Jerry on the mysterious wild goose chase, all the while being pursued by a federal agent played by Billy Bob Thornton, making like Tommy Lee Jones in “The Fugitive.” LaBeouf plays Jerry, a ne’er-do-well prodigal son who is “activated” (i.e. “Eagle Eye” returns to Hitch again, this time thieving from “North by Northwest” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” But it also shamelessly cribs from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Fugitive” and “Enemy of the State” in its comically incomprehensible tale of Big Brother Run Amok and the little people (as in, we, the people) who are trampled on in the process. “Disturbia” so blatantly ripped off Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” that rights holders are currently suing DreamWorks for compensation. Caruso learned one thing from their last outing, “Disturbia,” it seems to be this: Steal from a variety of sources. If “Eagle Eye” team Shia LaBeouf and director D.J.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |