To reveal much more is to quash Eagle Eye’s chief what-happens-next delight. Not playing second fiddle to huge machines or Indiana Jones, he finally earns his action-man stripes. From a bruising car chase down busy boulevards that segues into a breaker’s yard with cars being swung around like wrecking balls, to fisticuffs backstage at an airport, Caruso whisks his action into a spectacular but believable frenzy. After a summer packed with pixels, Caruso orchestrates his spills with a satisfying physicality you feel that stuntfolks are mostly doing this stuff in front of your very eyes. So it is a good job that Eagle Eye delivers practically non-stop action. Minus a lovely little scene in which Shaw quizzes Rachel about her kid, you get little in the way of characterisation. He’s saving his ‘cropduster’ moment for later. But Caruso has a different shock in store. And when the story delivers the pair into an open plain, it seems ripe for a Hitchcockian cropduster to hove into view. This is where the movie is most fun, with the anonymous woman on the end of the line turning the couple into unlikely hold-up artists, Japanese tourists and airport security crashers. Story, as out-of-control electronic signs, traffic lights changing at will and TV screens in McDonald’s mysteriously coerce and direct both him and Monaghan’s single mother on a wild goose chase with Billy Bob Thornton’s FBI blowhard in hot pursuit. He is pulled into a malevolent version of Steve Martin’s L. Trading on LaBeouf’s eminently likable mix of the charming and the resentful, his Jerry Shaw is a photocopy slave, good with the laydeez but estranged from his pop (Sadler). The result is a hugely enjoyable slice of nifty nonsense that revels in the pleasures of its plotting, and cleverly plays on everyday fears we all share: the fear of invasive technology, of terrorist cells, and of having William Sadler as your dad.Īs with 99.9 per cent of all thrillers, the set-up is more satisfying than its resolution. ’s Michelle Monaghan), building to a big climax at an American landmark. After 2007’s entertaining Rear Window reboot Disturbia, Eagle Eye is North By Northwest 2.0., with an EveryShia accused of a crime he didn’t commit, forced to go on the lam with a beautiful gal (M Caruso’s updating of Hitchcock classics using modern gadgetry, contemporary paranoia and Shia LaBeouf in for James Stewart/Cary Grant.
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