
Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. Jerry follows the voice's instructions, and soon he and a woman he's never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She i... (Full plot summary below)
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Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. Jerry follows the voice's instructions, and soon he and a woman he's never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She is Rachel Holloman, a single mom; the voice has threatened her son's death if she doesn't cooperate. The voice seems to know everything. Who is behind it, what is being planned, and why Jerry and Rachel?
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| FromTheBalconyBill ClarkThe screenwriters, four in all, and director D.J. Caruso completely squander any opportunity to be original and instead opt to make a generic and completely unsatisfying thriller. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittIt's entertaining, if you're OK with it not making a ton of sense. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfAn empty calorie, implausible action film with the sort of visual diarrhea most associated with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, Eye squanders a stunning start on a wheezing screenplay obese with mass stupidity and grand theft movie. |
| E! OnlineMatt StevensBig Brother may be watching, but Eagle Eye is barely worth a peek. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA loud, muddled and empty sci-fi thriller. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithIt's a terrible movie. You could go into any supermarket, pluck two reasonably attractive people from the check-out line, put them in this movie, and nothing would change. Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are lost amid the dumb, uninvolving chaos. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAt least LaBeouf makes for a likable hero. He's got the same kind of easy, natural charisma as Will Smith -- who, come to think of it, starred in another techno-paranoia thriller, "Enemy of the State," that Eagle Eye strongly resembles. |
| tonymedley.comTony MedleyThis is just good, old-fashioned filmmaking with two likable protagonists up against a monolithic antagonist. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe movie is so engrossing as an intellectual puzzle and such a solid thriller in every other department that it's probably actor-proof. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmBut do we care? This is a disastrous mess. |