![]() ![]() Yes, Big Brother may be watching, whoever that is. And it's Rated PG-13, but you can drop the s-word with that and have lots of guns and violence. (Warning: It's also a film with the classic shaky-camera techniques. Know what you’re selling, Hollywood! Ask the guy in front of me – it’s an action movie with the kid from “Transformers.” Not a political button-pusher. Then the words “Eagle Eye” popped up on screen and we cut to Shia LaBeouf. This scene went on long enough that I began to wonder if I walked into the wrong film. The computer says there’s a 51 percent chance this is the terrorist they want to blow up. Defense Secretary Callister (Michael Chiklis) – are watching intel of an alleged terrorist at a funeral in the Middle East. “Eagle Eye” starts with an extended scene where government officials – including U.S. This is a film that relies on us to care about the characters and for the main characters to care about each other. LaBeouf has one scene where he tears up looking at the body of his dead twin brother, and the ACTING light was flashing too brightly. (Sidenote: The film describes her character as mid-to-late 20s and about 5’9” but her IMDb profile says she’s three months older than me – 32 – and 5’7.” Is the film suggesting early 30s is too old and 5’7 would be too short standing next to Shia LaBeouf, whose profile lists him as 5’9 1/4”? Discuss.) Monaghan has been in everything from “Mission: Impossible III” and “Gone Baby Gone” to the recent Patrick Dempsey vehicle “Made of Honor.” She’s pretty and likable and edge-less enough to let Shia lead the way. They are strangers thrust into a nightmare puppet scenario when a mysterious woman contacts them by cell phone and forces them into dangerous situations. She is the single mother of an adorable trumpet player he is a copy associate whose twin brother just died. The leading lady in this case is Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloway. This is actually a good vehicle for Shia since it keeps him in his action zone, gives him at least one meaty funny-guy speech and lets him play the I’LL-listen-to-you-even-if-HE-won’t card on his leading lady. I wouldn’t dwell on the Spielberg connection, other than to remember he darn near worships little Shia and puts him in everything. Give us some names we can trust – Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg as executive producer, Shia as actor, the guy who directed Shia in “Disturbia” as director – and some pulse-pounding action. This is an action movie starring Shia LaBeouf, or as the guy in front of me at the box office told his cell phone, “That kid from ‘Transformers.’ … Yeah, it looks like it could be OK.” Those are our standards. ![]() “2001.” “Terminator.” “I, Robot.” “The Game.” Maybe even some “Phone Booth.” It depends on suspending disbelief not only in increasingly out-there machinations of the plot, but in the idea that this Big Brother is after you film is worth watching even though it’s been done to celluloid death. ![]() That’s just about the extent of his range everything else he does in “Eagle Eye” stems from the same smart alecky sensitive loser prototype he’s been charming or irking audiences with from “Disturbia” to “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”īut liking “Eagle Eye” doesn’t depend on liking LaBeouf. His slap-that-boy-upside-the-head attitude is a natural extension of Eddie Furlong’s character in “Terminator 2.” Plus, he showed in “Transformers” he can play nice with technology, and in “Eagle Eye” he shows he can play mean. Maybe Shia LaBeouf should play John Connor. ![]()
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