Film review

Eagle Eye is a 2008 thriller film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out a plan by a possible terrorist organization. The film was released in regular 35mm theaters and IMAX theatres.

Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf), a young man who works in a copy shop, returns to his village when his brother dies in an “accident”. When he returns to his flat in the city he found a lot of terrorist material. Then he received a call, and a voice said what he had to do, how to escape from the police, in which train he had to go…

On the other hand, Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) after seeing off his children also received a call. The voice said that she had to follow the instruction or the train where her son was would blow up.

Both, Jerry and Rachel, follow the instruction while they are followed by the police.

The end is very strange, the voice isn’t a human being.

In my opinion it’s a very good film. It’s exactly what could happen in the future. It was very strange to see how computers can influence in our life. It’s a computer who has got the whole information about a country (USA) and went crazy because he was angry with the supervisors. The technology has got power over everything.

It was also frightening to see what the internet and all the technology knows about you.
There is one scene where Jerry doesn’t want to continue. Then the “voice” shows him all the things that she knows about him: when he was born, where, how many times he failed an exam, private videos, where he has been living, what he has bought in the last ten years, where he had been working, his illnesses… Everything!

The computer can also control him, through the cameras which are everywhere.
I find that very dangerous, the fact that every good computer “hacker” can learn all this information about a person.

I would recommend this film, it has got a lot of negative critics, saying that it’s a boring and impossible plot, but I don’t think so. I think that it’s a film which makes you think a lot about yourself and the activities you are doing in the Internet.