Movie Review: Eagle Eye

'If you want to live you will obey'

Eagle Eye

Well, well, when did Shia get La Buff with his fine lil Jewish self?? Facial hair the works. This young tenderoni I'll be watching out for in the next Transformers installment that's for sure. So far I've seen him in Transformers, iRobot, Disturbia and now Eagle Eye. He's one of those up n comings who have been around since they were a child but are now blossoming by Hollywood standards, headlining and making the girls and grown women swoon.

So without giving too much away. And it's hard not to. Shia plays Jerry Shaw a young guy with not much money who works at the Copy Cabana. After returning from a depressing visit back home [won't go into specifics on that one], he deposits a cheque from his father at the ATM only to discover he has $750,000 deposited from nowhere. His little crusty apartment is filled with poison, bomb making equipment and some state of the art weaponry, and he receives a call from a mysterious woman telling him that the FBI are coming to arrest him in 30 seconds.


OK from this point on you are like WTF. Why do they want him? What's the connection between him and the leading lady? What is their 'mission'? Who is the voice on the other end? How are they doing all of this and pulling the strings?

It's one of those thrill rides that keeps you guessing till the end. It's well acted, a great script and enough action to keep you on your seat till the end.

I did find with this movie it went up and down a few times in the thrill factor, but when down it was well scripted dialogue. And it did remind me of Enemy of the State. Unfortunately I'm a girl who loves a can of whoop ass being opened at every living moment of a movie. I need to get that in check and pay attention to what's being said.

Shia was very convincing in this role. Really well cast and the only other I thought who would have played this role well was Josh Hartnett or Jake Gyllenhaal. I wonder who was originally up for casting in this role, that would be interesting to find out.

Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michael Chiklis were also starring in this movie. Michelle Monaghan played the leading lady alongside Shia. Julianne Moore played the voice of the Aria [uncredited].

All in all I enjoyed it, and I liked the trailer enough to venture out of my house on a Sunday night too. Definitely one for my DVD collection.