Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye is a top secret but ubiquitous monitoring system designed to keep the world safe from terrorists. Also designed to fight terrorism is the USA’s PATRIOT Act which hasn’t much to do with being patriotic and unlike most of the legislators that passed this sweeping law without really reading it, Eagle Eye has that document committed to its massive and unfailing memory. Its built in powers of logic have caused this machine to take a HAL (ie: from 2001: A Space Odyssey) course of action. This makes for a rather bad day for Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) a vagabond underachiever and single mom Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). These two strangers are forced to take risky orders from a detached female voice who gives eyewitness instructions when clearly the speaker is nowhere in sight. At first charged with terrorism and then aided by FBI agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) the one thing that does not relent is the action which is non stop. Two decades ago with Shia LaBeouf starring this movie might ironically have caused inquiries about the plot being bovine shy (ie: “where’s the beef!”) Still any vehicle that discredits a dangerous law like the PATRIOT Act has to be given some props.