Eagle Eye DVD Review

"Eagle Eye" reviews

DVD

Eagle Eye

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2009-03-13 15:13:58

Rating

3/5

Provider

DVD Review

There are few films in recent memory that perhaps are afforded a slight reprieve on the small screen. Most cinematic duds only revel in their mediocrity on DVD but D.J. Caruso's Hitchcockian riff, "Eagle Eye" manages to regroup, refocus and gets its eye in where it counts second time around.

Coming over like a Version 2.0 of "Enemy of The State", this high-tech thriller sees Shia LaBeouf, always good value in these troubled times, as a young man framed, rather spectacularly, by a mysterious voice on the end of his mobile. It would seem that, along with Michelle Monaghan's single mom, our Shia has been singled out by a nefarious AI and used in a complicated, and faintly ridiculous, war game.

Caruso and LeBeouf have developed something of a shorthand together since their time spent on "Disturbia" (another Hitchcock steal) and it just about drags this film across the finish line. Derided upon its cinematic release for being as substantial and flavoursome as a rice cake, "Eagle Eye" does try and touch upon the thorny issue of American foreign policy whilst injecting some Saturday spectacle with some nifty Ghost-in-the-Machine licks.

OK, granted Monaghan is a spare part in this tech orgy but there are some supporting players to fall back on - chief among them Billy Bob Thornton who is clearly having a lot more fun than most as a disgruntled CIA. Perhaps the thing that let "Eagle Eye" down the most at the multiplex was its washed-out ending, something which the extras try hard to rectify.

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