In the post 9/11 society, political thrillers, you would think, would be taking a back seat to allow more escapist fantasy filmmaking to let audiences get away from their daily troubles. However, more and more films are coming out that challenge current societal opinion of the governments of the world, giving viewers a much more critical eye. Perhaps the latest film to do so features just enough of an adventure element that there will not really be any kind of uproar or backlash. That film is Eagle Eye.

After his twin government worker brother is killed, Jerry Shaw (played by Shia LaBeouf), a shiftless young man with no direction for his life is surprised to find that his brother’s financial assets have all been transferred to his account. And upon returning home he finds that his room is filled with weapons. To make things worse, he receives a cellphone call informing him that he will be arrested in thirty seconds.

Upon being captured by an FBI agent (Billy Bob Thornton). He is then guided again by the mysterious caller to escape with a woman (Michelle Monaghan) whose son has been taken. They find that the mysterious caller somehow needs them to help carry out a plot to kill the President of the United States against their wills. It is now a race against time for them to figure out a way to prevent a coup d’etat to change the position of power in the United States.

Eagle Eye is an interesting movie in the sense that it takes a very high concept of what happens when big brother not only starts watching us, but telling us what to do. However, the concept itself is so high that the majority of the things that occur are ridiculously improbable, if not impossible. Another problem is the fact that many of the performances are just run of the mill. Some of the characters seem to simply be written with only the most straight forward of dialogue with very little embellishment. The characters just seem stale when they speak.

The only character that does not seem to be made out of cardboard is Jerry, but even Shia LaBeouf’s portrayal of the character has flaws. The flaws are not so much in his acting, however. LaBeouf tries his best to act older, and is convincing as the character, but perhaps an actor the same age as the character would have been better.

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