Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye is not as exciting as the trailers might lead moviegoers to believe, several critics have suggested. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times writes, "This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline. It's not an assault on intelligence. It's an assault on consciousness." Claudia Puig in USA Today makes the identical criticism: "Mostly, the plot is mind-numbingly preposterous, never stinting on overblown action." Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News suggests that the film "feels as if it were created, directed and acted, soup to nuts, by a computer program. See, everyone complains about humans in movies but no one does anything about it, so it fell to Eagle Eye to make everything laughably, ridiculously fake." Numerous critics make the point that the screenwriter "borrowed" plot devices and scenes directly from other films, most of them directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But Ty Burr in the Boston Globe concludes: "The borrowings from older, better movies are used the way you'd retrofit a classic engine into an assembly-line chassis. No one in the audience needs to know that's the Albert Hall climax from The Man Who Knew Too Much rumbling under the final scenes set in the US Capitol. But no one who's seen The Man Who Knew Too Much will think Eagle Eye does it remotely as well."

Pretty good movie...great suspense thriller. Filmed similar to the way "Enemy of the State" was made....from what I got from watching this. Great movie to watch nonetheless.