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.
Eagle Eye is a movie about a young slacker and a single mom get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination. The movie stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the fourth film of the series and is directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by executive producer George Lucas. Harrison Ford stars as the older but wiser Dr. Henry Jones Jr. a.k.a. Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), “Mutt” Williams (Shia LaBouef) and Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The movie opens with a group of teenagers joyrides through the Nevada desert in a vintage car, listening to deafening rock music from the radio. It is obviously the 1950’s. Indiana Jones and his friend George “Mac” McHale (Ray Winstone) have been kidnapped by the Russian military led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) and are brought to Area 51. Spalko wants Jones to locate a mysterious object in the warehouse and when they have found the box and unearthed it, it seems to be something from another world. Before long, Indy escapes after realizing his friend “Mac” works for the communists.
After surviving a nuclear test by hiding in a refrigerator, Indy’s back to the classroom teaching. While in the train, he is pursued by a young man called Mutt Williams (Shia LeBeouf) who looks like James Dean with slicked hair, motorcycle and a pocket knife. Mutt tells Indy that an old colleague, Professor Oxley (John Hurt) is going to be killed and gives him letters from Oxley. This leads them to find a crystal skull in Peru without knowing “Mac” and Spalko are following them relentlessly.
Indy and Mutt manage to find and rescue Oxley and Mario Ravenwood (Karen Allen), Indy’s love interest from Raiders of the Lost Ark who happens to be Mutt’s mom. Together, they make a daring escape not once but twice, the second time succeed after a rough topsy-turvy battle through the jungles. Along the way, Mutt displays some superb skill of swordplay and even he even swings like the monkeys and ends up in the jeep with Indy. When Indy encounters “Mac”, “Mac” tells Indy that he works for the CIA and Indy believes him as easy as a pie. Everyone runs helter-skelter after they all landed on the colony of gigantic siafu ants. Miraculously, the ants avoid crystal skull, so Indy and Colonel Dovchenko (Igor Jijikine) are able to battle it out hand-to-hand combat on the ant’s colony.
After escaping from the Russians, Indy and the gang (including “Mac”) ends up in the water when Ravenwood makes an unbelievable attempt at driving through the cliff only to land on a tree besides the cliff which safely brings Indy and the gang down to the ground. After falling through three waterfalls, everyone survive without barely a scratch (we are not talking about the normal waterfalls, these waterfalls are almost like the size of Victoria Falls). Through the final waterfall, they have discovered the entrance without knowing “Mac” has secretly dropped a tracking device for Spalko to track their location.
The Indiana Jones movies are always exhilarating and bring never-ending excitement and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is no different. Though there are flaws in the movie like none of core characters got injured, jumping jeep from the cliff and landed safely, falling and surviving waterfalls, surviving nuclear bomb in a refrigerator, we all know Indiana Jones is an action hero and Harrison Ford does it right again. Shia LeBeouf has apparently grown up from the Transformers movie into a rougher young adult while Cate Blanchett plays her role well as a Russian communist, in fact, she even speaks flawlessly in Russian accent. Besides the usual heart-pounding excitement, the movie is somewhat lightheartedly funny. Like it or hate it, the movie is put together perfectly by the brilliant Spielberg and Lucas and are played well, every bit of it.
The House Bunny is almost like Legally Blonde even though they are different. The film gave Katherine McPhee and Rumer Willis their debut. Pink, blonde and girly movie but it’s nice. So nice.
Eagle Eye is definitely an engrossing movie that will keep you glue to your seat. Shia LeBouef does not disappoint with his solid performance throughout the film. Eagle Eye is definitely worth watching.
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Pathology is simply amazing. Even though it's a sick movie, I enjoy the movie from the start till the end. Nobody is safe. Gory, sick and full of surprise.
