Eagle Eye
1.5 Waffles!

It’s time to see if Shia LeBeouf can carry a movie without the help of Indiana Jones and some robots.


LaBeouf stars as Jerry Shaw – a smart guy estranged from his family, floating through life with as little responsibility as possible and saddened by the loss of his twin brother. One day, he returns home to find his apartment full of explosives and firearms. As you can imagine, the FBI is not very far behind, when Jerry receives a mysterious phone call giving him instructions that must be followed, or else.

Who is the voice?

What does she want?

Sadly, the answers to those questions give you one of the biggest You’ve Got To Be Kidding moments of the year.

Eagle Eye gets off to a slow start as director D.J. Caruso and the writers try to flesh out Jerry’s character and make us feel bad for him, but once the action gets going, it keeps going and going and going in a way that will keep you interested and wondering what implausible scenario this guy will end up in next. That sappy stuff doesn’t matter when the constant barrage of car chases, stuff going boom and people shooting guns starts to be the most important parts of Eagle Eye.

Sadly, the big mystery is a huge letdown. The identity of the voice behind all of the dangerous and horrible orders Jerry and his unwilling partner, Rachel (Michelle Monaghan), must follow is too fantastical and unbelievable for the tone of the movie as it is presented. The audience deserves something more down to earth and, for lack of a better term, realistic.

If you want mindless action, you’ve found your movie. The rest of us will be waiting for that Russell Crowe/Leonardo DiCaprio movie.

Eagle Eye is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language.