EAGLE EYE Film Review - 7/12/08

What starts off as an effectively creepy thriller high on taut adrenalin and bone-crunching, chew your nails off, edge of your seat action - Suddenly changes tack halfway through and your like "Is that it?" moment suddenly strikes and then it all gets a bit silly. Comparisons will inevitably lead to 'Enemy Of The State' (A much better film!) and to a major extent 'Wargames'. The scenario has been done before (. . and better!) but for a jolly good smash-em-up ride it has it's moments - But it's definitely a wet Sunday afternoon no-brainer - Pretty good to start off with then lags along the final stretch.

A run-of-the-mill ordinary Joe gets home to find a terrorist's arsenal in his dingy flat, the FBI soon drop in and this guy goes on the run with a mysterious female voice guiding him (and none too gently!) away from the forces chasing him; forcing him to do her bidding by controlling everything electronic around him. Doing the same to a number of other people the plot unfolds into a complex assassination attempt on the US Government itself.