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Eagle Eye by D.J. Caruso
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Anthony Mackie, Michael Chiklis, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Shia LaBeouf Director: D.J. Caruso Brand: Paramount Producer: Alex Kurtzman Producer: Edward McDonnell Producer: James M. Freitag Writer: Dan McDermott Writer: Hillary Seitz Writer: John Glenn Writer: Travis Wright DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 118 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-12-27 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Eagle EyeMovie Review: Pretty Good...Not Real Original But I Liked the Characters Summary: 4 StarsNicely paced thriller with a what-if scenario which was not the freshest but still entertaining. The characters were nicely fleshed out through believable motivation and the skill of the actors. As far as family friendly viewing, it was pretty mild without overt gore, excessive raw language or lewdness. The suspense might be too much for some, but overall this was a pretty good flick.
Summary of Eagle EyeStudio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/26/2008 The "cell phone thriller" is becoming a genre unto itself, and Eagle Eye should be considered a key example of the form. Frankly preposterous but compulsively watchable, this movie puts Shia LaBeouf in a mess of trouble instigated by a mysterious telephone voice. If he doesn't follow orders, dire things will happen--although when he does follow orders, the consequences are pretty dire, anyway. Also being blackmailed is a single mom (Michelle Monaghan) receiving similar phone calls. Why are they being jerked around by the purring female voice, and why is the road leading to Washington, D.C.? Actually, you won't have time to contemplate these questions, because director D.J. Caruso (who guided LaBeouf in Disturbia) keeps the action going at the customary breakneck pace. This is a wise move, because the real questions you'd likely be asking have to do with the plausibility of events on a minute-by-minute basis (most notably: how could Mysterious Phone Voice possibly know that the two pigeons would survive the hoops she makes them fly through, each one more death-defying than the last?). The actors tumble through this mayhem like scattering bowling pins, including Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson as government agents. Nobody has time to make much of an impression, and LaBeouf has much less room for puppydog charm than he did in Disturbia. Even that would be all right within the movie's berserk parameters, but the really irritating thing is the way the tacked-on final scenes reverse what would have been a heroic climax. No guts, no glory. --Robert Horton
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