I'm still struggling to get the vivid image of an innocent looking Shia LaBeouf, playing the role of a 7th grader named Louis on Disney's Even Stevens, out of my childhood head. His pranks on his sister Renee and his scheming with his bud Twitty were, for a few reliable seasons, what I grew up on. I was hoping Eagle Eye could take that image out of my head. I was wrong. I don't think anything can. But the movie did leave me with a bad "I think I've seen this before" taste in my mouth.
I'm not going to summarize all of the movie, its sequences or how I felt when Bumble Bee made his cameo. No I'm going to just air out my dirty laundry. The movie is premised on a woman telling Shia and his counterpart Michelle Monaghan that they must do everything they say, or else they will suffer terrible consequences (which include death, death to a loved one, accidents, etc ya ya OK we get it). But eventually it comes out that this woman is not a woman, but some computer created by the government that has come to realize that the best thing for the nation is to kill the president and other leaders of the nation.
Ok. Let me sum up that movie again. I really didn't need to spend all of that effort. In short, Eagle Eye is about a computer that tries to kill the very people who created it, and more.
I'm just going to give you a list: I, Robot; The Matrix; Stealth; WALL-E; The Terminator; etc. All premised on computers/robots taking matters into their own hands. Because the fact is everyone has made this movie. People make computer, computer gets smart, computer kills people. I don't care who your actors are, how many cop cars get crushed and how crappy of a casting job you did. I just wish I would have known it was about a computer! But maybe they didn't tell us Eagle Eye was about an unoriginal, Wall-e/I,Robot like computer for a reason. I,Robot was marketed as humans vs. cool robots with a sexy Will Smith, and Eagle Eye was marketed as someONE telling people what to do, or else. Heck, if I would have known the truth, I would have not seen Eagle Eye. I mean the reason why I refuse to see Stealth is that a computer jet fighter that goes rogue kinda seems like I've seen that movie too many times. And I have. Yesterday, I saw it again.
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