DVD Review: “Eagle Eye”
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in “Eagle Eye.”
Rating: 43
Shia LaBeouf and director D.J. Caruso have been to this well before: a precocious but underachieving young man gets in over his head when no one around him believes a conspiracy is afoot. But while Caruso’s “Disturbia” was an unusually effective and enjoyable update of “Rear Window,” “Eagle Eye” whips viewers around like bush league Michael Bay.
LaBeouf’s Jerry Shaw is a disappointment to his family, who always expected him to equal the achievements of his twin brother Ethan. Then Ethan dies in a traffic accident and events spiral out of control for Jerry. A large sum of money shows up in his bank account, a stash of weapons lands in his apartment, an FBI agent (Billy Bob Thornton) has Jerry in his sights, and a puppet master communicating via cell phone has Jerry and single mom Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) executing increasingly dangerous missions to save Rachel’s 8-year-old boy.
All this high-concept noise makes “Eagle Eye” preposterous even for a modern thriller, and the slam-bang action sequences are so gratuitous that it starts to feel abusive. And there is a surplus of talent involved (Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis), but hardly anything about the film will stick past the closing credits. With “Eagle Eye,” both Caruso and LaBeouf set their sights too low.
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