Eagle Eye

                I did not expect to like this movie.  Not that I planned on disliking it.  It is simply that action movies are not usually my thing.  The only reason I watched Eagle Eye at all is because my mom saw it in the television listings and wanted to watch.  I did not really care one way or the other so we turned on the television and gave the movie a try.  To my surprise, I must say, I would not mind seeing the movie again. 

                The premise is two strangers are running around the country being controlled by an anonymous woman.  They do not know what she even looks like as all their contact is through their cell phones.  The woman has all the details of their lives and uses this to manipulate them into doing her bidding.  The man, Jerry, played by Shia LaBeouf, has been framed as an enemy of the state setting the FBI after him.  The woman on the phone helps him to escape and leads him to the woman of the controlled duo, Rachel, played by Michelle Monaghan.  She is being manipulated as her son’s life is in danger if she does not do what the woman on the phone demands.  Jerry and Rachel do not know each other, but they must work together to figure out what is going on and bring it to an end.

                While Jerry and Rachel are the two main characters of the movie, the film also follows the FBI and an Air Force Special Agent.  Everyone is trying to figure out what is really going on and they each do it in their own way.  All the pieces come together, but to get the problem resolved needs everyone’s help.

                This movie is good, but it is also creepy.  The amount of control the woman on the phone has over everything even remotely computerized is terrifying.  It makes one wonder, with as much as computers are used today, could this really happen?