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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Eagle
EAN: 0097363492641
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 29
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/26/2008
Amazon.com:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - No new twists to an old theme!
Shia LaBeouf is being manipulated and framed for threats against the government and the President. His twin has been murdered and he is forced to do things that he doesn't want to do (by a gentle, female voice on the phone), all with the help of an unwilling, single mother played by Michelle Monaghan. Torn between fear and duty to Country, LaBeouf and Monaghan, follow a series of steps to unmask who is behind the plots and why. Rosario Dawson and Billy Bob Thornton are wonderful in their support ... Read More
Rating: - Be warned...
This movie was good and entertaining and I really enjoyed watching it... until the end. The ending of this movie is terrible! Quite possibly the worst ending to a movie I have ever seen and as a movie freak I have seen alot of movies and alot of terrible endings. I think Shia Labeouf is becoming a great actor and Spielberg is a genius but this was just ridiculous. The ending turned a good entertaining movie into complete garbage. I give this movie 2 stars because I'd say if you really want to see ... Read More
Rating: - Eagle Eye = Skynet
Every single aspect of Eagle Eye has been done before, and better. Aside from that FACT, the rest of it is just convoluted eye candy meant to put the majority of easily persuaded viewers into a trance. Last but not least, it's a message movie, with an obvious political axe to grind from a Hollywood crowd bereft of any leverage in the moral landscape.
Essentially, Eagle Eye is a top secret government computer system meant to predict crime (Minority Report) by using every electronic resource ... Read More
Rating:  - Action Packed thriller
This Movie was awesome I enjoyed every minute of it and there was a lot of action in this movie. I didn't think this movie was going to be any good due to all of the negative reviews that people wrote about this movie the answer is real simple don't see the movie I thought this movie was awesome and fun to watch because I enjoyed watching this action packed movie and besides anybody will say negative things about an action movie or any kind of movie for that matter if they didn't understand it because I'd ... Read More
Rating: - This is a bit much
This is one of those types of films that keeps you watching all the way through but where you begin to see holes even before the end. (A lot of action movies have to be seen a second time to find the holes in the plot.)
Can we really be expected to believe that there are programs as sophisticated as what would have beene needed to execute a plot such as this?
Can we really be expected to believe that the most efficient way for the two protagonists to find the serum that would allow ... Read More
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