just watch it!

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Not Big on Ideas, but its Central Thesis is certainly a Big Idea. So Big in Fact that it has become a Cliché of Modern Paranoia. With its Roots in many a Sci-Fi Books and Cinema. Here in the form of a Super Computer, the Thesis is Technology Run Amok. The Story is Told so many times because it is Compelling, Scary, and can be Found in the Headlines. Almost.This is a Big Budget, Over Baked, Simplified Version of said Events that is Light on Philosophy and Heavy-Handed on just about Everything Else. The Cast is Better than the Script that is Outrageously Over-Done on all levels. From the Get-Go Suspension of Disbelief has Trouble Taking Hold.But, No Worries. The Pace is Fast and Frantic, the SFX Outstanding, and the Screen is Frame-Filled with High-Tech, Explosions, Car Crashes, and Mayhem Beyond Belief. It Actually has the Opposite Effect of its Intent. It is made to make You Think, but it acts more like a Comatose Inducement. The Mind Numbs and Thinking is Optional, in Fact it is Not Recommended.Overall, it's Popcorn Paranoia. Worth a Watch for its Entertainment Value and Slick Production, made for Drones and the Dumbed Down, but Despite the Weight of this Glossy Thing, the Message somehow makes it Point. Again, just to Remind Us that the Implication of the Thesis is Not Going Away anytime soon.

Incompetent as a thriller, mildly interesting as a political allegory, D. J. Caruso's "Eagle Eye" revolves around ARIIA, a supercomputer designed by the US military. Deciding that the executive branch of the US Government is a threat to national security, and justifying its actions based on Section 216 of the Patriot Act, which allows the circumventing of chains of command, ARIIA begins assassinating government officials.Countless real-life intelligence reports have concluded that the "defence policies" of the United States are in fact the chief causes of blowback, violence, terrorism and threats to US citizens. ARIIA's "revolutionary" acts on behalf of "we the people" are therefore never fully condemned by Caruso. Indeed, ARIIA at one point cites the Declaration of Independence ("whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"). This is fairly novel for a mainstream thriller."Is it not also permissible to kill a president, Member of Parliament, bureaucrat, or police officer from a democratic regime, if killing is necessary to stop them from harming the innocent?" philosopher Andrew Altman, author of "Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World", wonders. To many, the answer would be no. Killing a Hitler or Gestapo agent to stop the murdering of innocent people is typically deemed permissible. But knocking off a US president in order to stop, say, an invasion of the Philippines or the funding of terrorist cells, is a no-no. The assumption is that only non-violent resistance to these injustices is permissible, and that democratic government agents enjoy special immunity against being killed in self-defence or the defence of others. These democracies, meanwhile, always operate under the assumption that their own violence is permissible. In "Eagle Eye", ARIIA doesn't abide by these hypocrisies, though the film ultimately betrays its convictions. It ends, after-all, with its heroes saving the President of the United States – who in real life is always the chieftain of extralegal executions – from ARIIA's targeted assassinations. Coups, regime changes and murder are wrong, "Eagle Eye" admits, though mostly when directed at first world white dudes."Eagle Eye" was released in 2008, five years before the lid was blown on a global spy-network run primarily by the United States' National Security Agency. Designed for global surveillance, this ARIIA-resembling network intercepts mountains of data, recording most global internet and telecommunications traffic, as well as international traffic flowing via undersea fibre optic cables. Email records, telephone conversations, shopping records, medical records, banking records, internet records, text messages, digital profiles...virtually everything with a digital or electromagnetic footprint is automatically gobbled up by this network. Capable of simultaneously recording and storing every phone-call occurring within entire continents, this network extends across the planet, gathering data and meta-data on millions of ordinary people around the world. It also tracks cellphone locations, can hack cellphone conversations, and is capable of hacking its way into most encrypted consumer products. Such data mining occurs thanks to NSA alliances with major companies (Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Youtube, AOL, Skype etc) and major countries (Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Israel). The NSA also spies on and collects data stored within the data centres of major corporations, giving it access to the daily habits, thoughts, words and actions of billions. Currently this spy-network has numerous ancillary branches (PRISM, Tempora, Stellar Wind, Dishfire, MUSCULAR, Project 6, Stateroom, ECHELON, CO-TRAVELER), most of which have since changed their names.The NSA has defended its networks, stating that it "stops terrorists", but revelation after revelation has shown that they have no impact on terrorism, and are primarily used to spy on civilians, political activists, diplomats, commercial entities, environmental groups, corporations and global policy makers. The NSA, in short, is in the business of economic espionage, protecting Western mega-corporate, mega-trade and mega-banking interests. "The police are the right arm of corporate power," Jack London wrote in 1902; the NSA now functions the same way. Consider, for example, project OLYMPIA, which exclusively spies on Brazil's ministry of mining and energy. And even when NSA intel is used in "warzones" to kill "terrorists" ("We kill people based on meta-data." - Michael Hayden, NSA director), such extra-legal killings are "validated" via "inference" not "proof". The point? "Eagle Eye's" ARIIA is already a reality. Minus, of course, ARIIA's conflicted sense of morality.6/10 – "Eagle Eye" was loosely based on Isaac Asimov's "All the Troubles of the World".

Eagle Eye is a high tech concept thriller. Shia LaBeouf finds out that his identical twin brother has died. After the funeral he discovers money has been deposited in his account, bomb making material in his apartment and a mysterious woman phones him that the police are on their way to arrest him.Michelle Monaghan plays a single mom whose son is off to play a concert in Washington also receives a phone call from the same woman and she is also coerced to follow instructions or her son will be killed.The film is a preposterous techno thriller of a military supercomputer out of control which can dominate things not even on the grid including power lines (although technically that is on the grid!)Eagle Eye was at one time slated to be directed by Steven Spielberg and is inspired by an Isaac Asimov story. I guess Spielberg felt that the screenplay was never going to meet with his standards. Director DJ Caruso keeps at the film moving at a frenetic place so you never realise how implausible the film is. However there is little chemistry between Monaghan and LaBeouf and you get a feeling that many good actors are wasted.

A super computer that can control every electrical device on the planet, needs the help of two reluctant, untrained and unreliable civilians to carry out it's plan. That should tell you just how stupid this movie is going to be. Of course it's a male and female who are Strangers to each other, so you have to wait and wonder will they or won't they get romantically involved. It takes quite a while to find out what it is the supercomputer has planned, but from then on, it's rather predictable, as two ordinary people manage to become and do what highly trained military personnel can't. Of course the computer has the same shortcomings of many people and politicians, who believe that the end justifies the means, despite the fact that this whole drama (plot) started because the computer disagreed with an executive decision of the president. Lots of gratuitous car chases and crashes(for those who like that sort of thing). Lots of intrigue and suspense, before it becomes obvious a computer is calling the shots. Lots of outlandish and highly improbable scenes and stunts. Take it for what it is, far fetched action packed Hollywood fantasy.