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Eagle Eye Is For the Birds

Posted Sep 26, 08 10:25 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Big-Brother thriller Eagle Eye is so full of confusing "cyber-techno-harum-scarum" that it's a film "only the Global Positioning System could love," writes Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune. The “hyperactive jumble" of a story—featuring a man framed as a terrorist and followed by a mysterious voice—is “intensely silly and visually hysterical," Phillips notes.

Everything in the film is “laughably, ridiculously fake,” agrees Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News. Star Shia LaBoeuf “has too paper-thin a persona to come off hunted and haggard.” Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle observes that while the film's premise "carries it a long way," it “threatens to slip into farce."
Sources: Rotten Tomatoes, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle

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In this image released by Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks, Shia LaBeouf, left, and Michelle Monaghan star as two unsuspecting Americans drawn into a mysterious conspiracy in "Eagle Eye."   (AP Photo/ Ralph Nelson)
In this image released by Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks, Shia LaBeouf is shown in a scene from the thriller "Eagle Eye."   (AP Photo/ Kerry Hayes)
Cast member Shia LaBeouf arrives at the premiere of "Eagle Eye" in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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