Review of Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye (2008)
4/10
This is a SMART mastermind?
12 October 2008
Warning: Spoilers
It's hard to comment on how stupid this movie is without giving away the main plot devise, but before I do, if you want to see a bunch of cool car chases and some unbelievable special effects -- unbelievable in the sense that the laws of physics wouldn't allow this -- you could find worse places to waste your money.

(spoiler)

But let me get this straight: There's one man on earth (who through the grace of God has allowed his vocal chords to develop exactly like his twin brother's did -- flu for flu, adolescence for adolescence)who can allow Aria to kill off the leadership, and the best way she can figure to get him to Washington is to make him the country's most wanted terrorist and send him through a ragged series of near-death experiences with the FBI and everyone else trying to gun him down? She has to get a crystal in the capital, and her best plan is to put it around the neck of a distraught mother making the same insane race to the Capitol? Her best plan for activating the crystal is to hope a nervous 8-year-old hits the perfect difficult note on a difficult instrument? And the whole plan involves "activiating" a dozen or so other operatives as minor cogs in her whole evil scheme, showing that she doesn't understand that the more moving parts you have the more likely something will go wrong? No one ever told her: Keep it simple? And this is a super-duper-i-can-even-read-vibrations-in-a-coffee-cup- made-by-a-cel-phone's-tiny-speaker computer?

(end of spoiler)

I think we're safe for a while.
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