Many Kinds of Anime In The World: Movies Review : The Eagle Eye

For a superpower country like America what is actually the biggest threat for its national security? Soviet Union has long been destroyed. Islam? They have much less weapons and armory compare to the superiority of United States army. So what’s left? That’s what you’re gonna find in this movie. I’m not gonna tell you though as it’s gonna be a major spoiler.

Eagle Eye tells almost everything you need to know about spy, intelligence, conspiracy, and all the technologies involved. But it doesn’t mean to be smart. If it does then it well fails. The movie real intentions actually is only showing many action and thriller sequences to the audiences from start to finish.

The story is quite interesting at the beginning. You could see what this movie offers right from the start, involving scenes from foreign land where US army have some intelligence mission to kill one of their enemy. After that the story rolls. There’s an ordinary guy named Jerry Shaw who suddenly drawn into a mysterious conspiracy. He later joined by Rachel, a single mother with a child.

Both Jerry and Rachel had to experience extraordinary moments of their life through some explosion, guns shooting, and car crash, without really know what’s going on. The conflict even brought them close to very high positions in the government. What is it really about? You can find the answer near the end.

Eagle Eye seems lack of intensity, even for audiences who expect total actions. Some of the action sequences were good in idea, but unfortunately quite standard in executions. Some scenes, especially on the car crash, could’ve been executed in a bigger scale and not really depends on fast editing.

To be honest I was quite disappointed to know what the story is all about. It’s not quite right. I know that Dreamworks and Steven Spielberg involved in this movie but it doesn’t have to be that typical. I also hate the ending. It should’ve been the other way around. I’m not gonna tell you though

The performance of future big star, Shia LaBeouf was just average. Actully I was thinking that he’s not fit in his role as Jerry Shaw. He needs to build a different image of him during serious action scenes. While for Michelle Monaghan who played Rachel, well I always regard her best with her very good and sexy performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) or at least being Tom Cruise’s love interest in Mission Impossible III (2006).