Some may be able to pull the plug on their sense of logic and enjoy the procession of inanity, but when it’s all over, the result isn’t nearly as interesting or as clever as it could be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2024

It's a film for people whose brains have been permanently muted.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

| Feb 28, 2020

There is some interesting supporting work from Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis and Billy Bob Thornton, but it's not enough to save the film's ridiculous screenplay and D.J. Caruso's distracting direction.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 15, 2019

The script becomes muddled and frustratingly opaque.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

In Eagle Eye, we're meant to fear our GPS.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2014

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

As the film drags on, there are several nauseatingly dogmatic moments that make you feel like you're trapped in some kind of uber-liberal rally.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2011

A warning about the threat in our own backyard -- but as often is the case with Hollywood blockbusters, the warning comes across more like fear-mongering than constructive social criticism. Personally, I prefer my cinema sans mongering.

| Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011

Eagle Eye isn't awful, just trite ... it suffers from the same problem most high concept films have; it's all smoke, but no fire.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 21, 2011

The trouble with Shia? He's no Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant. And as for Caruso, well, Brian De Palma can rest easy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 7, 2010

Everything's chopped up into those woozy, bite-size snippets of flashing lights and spinning tires, thrown into a blender and then regurgitated on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2009

Eagle Eye is a totally derivative, unoriginal techno-thriller, cribbing scenes and ideas from better films. ... But it's also thoroughly entertaining.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

...one could certainly do far worse as far as movies of this ilk go.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2009

This is nobody's idea of an intelligent political thriller (or satire), but it is an orgy for the senses.

| Jan 6, 2009

So colossally ridiculous (and transparently derivative) that willing suspension of disbelief is a fool's errand. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 31, 2008

Attempting to tap into the public's collective fears and suspicions comes D.J. Caruso's preposterous Eagle Eye, an action film with plenty of thrills but I have no idea what alternate reality it's set in.

| Dec 30, 2008

What, you can't relate to someone being controlled by an omniscient machine?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2008

...one long, hyperkinetic chase, with the audience wondering what in the heck is happening.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 22, 2008