| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

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

What's galling about Eagle Eye is that it could easily have been an entertaining film without constantly yielding to the impulse to blow stuff up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

But there's also a puppy-dog doesn't-know-any-better enthusiasm to this pacy fluff which means you can't get that worked up at it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2008

don't have the willpower, words, or energy to explain why a psychopathic CIA computer suddenly decides to take over the world. But that's the plot in a nutcase.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2008

Some nonsense is fun, but this wears you down.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2008

As well as being the most preposterously plotted action flick of this or any year, Eagle Eye is a prime example of technophobia at its most hypocritical.

| Oct 17, 2008

A fun techno romp, mixing great bang for your buck with insights into the dangers of restricting civil liberties. Now, anyone for Shia killing blondes dressed as his dead mother?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2008

Portentous nonsense, and loud with it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2008

But do we care? This is a disastrous mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2008

Eagle Eye churns and flails and piles on pointless and improbable complications.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2008

The scriptwriters are setting a trap, but there's a risk. If they push the capabilities of the unseen female voice too far -- and they do -- they risk our patience. Once you withdraw your willingness to believe, it's hard to get it back.

| Oct 3, 2008

It has been shot and edited with that hectic, all-too-familiar brand of impressionistic choppiness often used by Hollywood directors to make a silly story unintelligible.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2008

Eagle Eye feels less like a vehicle for an action hero than the latest in a series of national focus groups to determine LaBeouf's commercial viability.

| Sep 26, 2008

The simple fact is that what starts as fast and furiously entertaining potboiler easy to roll with suddenly becomes one of the more incredulously asinine and unintentionally silly disasters I've seen all year.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2008

Eagle Eye, with a more nuanced idea of paranoia and the ills of technology gone wild, could have been both entertaining and disturbing. Deafening isn't quite the same thing.

| Sep 26, 2008

It all wears very thin by the third act, when The Voice really starts to grate and all remaining sense slams into a brick wall.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2008

The chase eventually wears thin, and Eagle Eye eventually strangles its actors in the threads of its plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2008