6/28/2023 0 Comments Shia leboeuf eagle eyeThis is the type movie that needs you to check your logic at the door. I agree with Eric that the extremely implausible plot devices and the seeming omnipotence of the computer to control the main characters surroundings only works because the action comes so fast and furious and never lets up. It has never been taken to quite the level it is here though. The evil computer idea (or more precisely, the computer that knows what’s best for mankind and will make the hard decisions to get us there) has been done before, most notably in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The FBI in particular is portrayed in quite a positive manner (I can see John Wayne in the Billy Bob Thornton role). At the end the hero saves the president and his cabinet members and the computer is destroyed. The computer created by the government is clearly the villain. The United States government is not portrayed in a bad light in this movie. I once joked that Iranians must be putting up the money for these types of Hollywood films. Maybe, just maybe, the American public would like to see a film that shows the United States, the government and it’s military actually as the good guys? It would not have been hard to rewrite this film to have actual terrorists be the bad guys manipulating the computer. All of these anti-America films have done poorly at the box office. Where in the hell is John Wayne when you need him. It is becoming all to clear that Hollywood is a bunch of America hating chicken shits. This movie even takes a quick jab at Britain’s intelligence gathering as they were the ones supplying Bush with much of his evidence of Iraq’s WMD’s. With subtlety thrown out the window, Eagle Eye, thinly masked as an action thriller, is nothing more than an indictment of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war with shoddy information. In typical liberal fashion, the United States is the evil, bad guy and not the terrorists attacking us. The computer, programmed to protect the United States, determines that the best way to protect the United States from the terrorists, is to kill the members of the current administration, who made the decision to kill a man they did not know for sure was a terrorist. The President says to take him out anyway, thus gettting the plot moving.Īfter it is discovered that the man killed was not a terrorists, all kinds of terrorists attack are carried out against the United States in retaliation. A analytical defense computer, created by Jerry’s twin brother, warns them to abort the mission. The film opens with a scene of Americans deciding whether or not to assassinate a middle eastern man they believe to be a terrorists. I am going to spoil a plot twist as it is the source of my disdain for this movie. You never have too much time to think about all of the plot holes. The set up is fairly preposterous but the action and pacing are so good. It was my fourteen year old's turn to pick the movie, so I ended up watching it. I was not thrilled to see this movie, as the commercials made it seem like one of those films that is too far out there to believe. They soon have the police and FBI on their trail as they find themselves breaking all kinds of laws to make the voice happy. He is soon joined by a woman who has likewise been forced to do whatever is asked of her. One day he gets a phone call and is forced into doing the bidding of a voice over the phone. Jerry is a college drop out working behind a counter in a copy store. With Eagle Eye though, Hollywood snuck one in on me. I have been purposely avoiding most of the blatant anti-America films that Hollywood has been putting out in the last couple of years.
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