DVD
Eagle Eye
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Physical Description:
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videodisc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : DVD; rated- 14A - Publisher: [California] : DreamWorks Pictures, c2008.
Content descriptions
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Dariusz Wolski ; editor, Jim Page ; music, Brian Tyler. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, widescreen format; Dolby Digital. |
| Language Note: | English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midway Public Library | DVD 14A EAG (Text) | 35143000168523 | Video / Dvd | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Video Librarian Reviews : Video Librarian Reviews
Cribbing ideas and sequences from earlier and better thrillersâsuch as North by Northwest and Enemy of the Stateâdirector D.J. Caruso's noisy, chaotic shoot-'em-up posits the existence of a massive, government-developed supercomputer capable of monitoring and controlling every single electrical device in the countryâ¦even traffic lights. Naturally, the operating system develops a glitch that inadvertently sets into motion a fail-safe program intended to assassinate the President and take out much of his cabinet as well. So, it falls to sophomoric underachiever Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and single mom Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) to short-circuit the plan (literally) after they are set up by the computer to be blamed for the killings. To call Eagle Eye's plot improbable is to call the North Pole chilly: the logical inconsistencies pile atop one another in rapid succession, while the Hitchcockian denouement (admittedly viscerally effective) is full of absurdities. Billy Bob Thornton has a plum role as the FBI agent investigating Jerry's part in the scheme, but Rosario Dawson is wasted as a prim military intelligence officer. Those with a less fastidious taste for plain simple logic may be excited by the action sequences (innumerable car chases, explosions, and shootouts) that are edited so jaggedly as to be incomprehensible, but most others will be disappointed. Not a necessary purchase. (E. Hulse) Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2009.
