Eagle Eye is an action-packed thriller starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Shia LaBeouf & Michelle Monaghan in "Eagle Eye"
The movie begins with the armed forces getting a lead on a suspected terrorist by using a remote control aircraft that’s equipped with video camera. However, the system is not able to get a clear shot out of the man and recommends the mission to be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the recommendation as he feels it’s too risky, but the President of the United States orders the mission to be executed. It turns out that those who were killed are civilians and the terrorists retaliate by bombing the U.S. Embassies in several locations around the world.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a slacker who works at Copy Cabana, a photocopier store. He needs to win some poker money from his loser friends in order to settle the rental of his apartment. Misfortune hits him when Jerry finds out that his brother, Ethan has died in a road accident.
Fortune comes knocking when Jerry finds USD $750,000 in his bank account. When he returns home, he finds his apartment is filled with weapons, explosives and documents. He receives a mysterious phone call from an unknown woman who warns him that the FBI are about to arrest him in thirty seconds and he has no choice but to escape. Jerry’s refusal to believe the woman’s voice gets him caught by the FBI, led by Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) and Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson).
The unknown woman arranges Jerry’s escape and make him join single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) into a black Porsche Cayenne. Holloman is already seated in the car as she was earlier forced by the unknown woman to get into the car by threatening to kill her son, Sam a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C. for a band recital.
Agent Perez figures out that Ethan was a technician and he has locked down ARIA from carrying out her plan. However, ARIA is the one who has eliminated Ethan and Ethan didn’t die from a road accident.
Jerry is forced to impersonate Ethan in order to override the code that has earlier locked down the computer. When ARIA has cleared the lock down and is able to resume Operation Guillotine, she instructs Rachel to kill Jerry so he won’t be able to lock the computer down again. Rachel fails to kill Jerry as she is not able to overcome her conscience despite the threat by ARIA to kill Sam. Jerry and Rachel part ways but Jerry is caught up by Agent Morgan. They both learn that ARIA has a list of whom she will kill in order to eliminate public threat including the President of the United States. However, ARIA sends a Predator B UCAV to destroy Jerry. Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to destroy the aircraft in order to save Jerry.
Rachel is given a necklace fitted with the explosive crystal by The Secretary of Defense and sent to watch the President’s speech. Sam’s class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President’s State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a high F on his trumpet. Jerry fires a few shot into the air, halting the performance and emptying the room, but provokes a Secret Service agent to shoot him.
Jerry who survives the gunshot, receives the Congressional Gold Medal for his bravery. The movie ends with Jerry attending Sam’s birthday party.
Overall, it is a spectacular movie with brilliant plots and engrossing moments. Shia LeBouef does not disappoint with his solid performance throughout the film. Eagle Eye is definitely worth watching.
My ratings: 7 out of 10.
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