Eagle Eye (D.J. Caruso, 2008)

Eagle Eye (D.J. Caruso, 2008)A techno-paranoid nightmare on steroids. The film’s underlying fear is based on interconnection, the idea that all technologies—traffic lights, security cameras, cell phones, spy planes, junk-yard cranes, and elevated trains—are networked so that, if someone (or something) were to have access to all of it, he or she (or it) could literally manipulate the world. Like all techno thrillers, there is something vaguely plausible about it all, even as it pushes the envelope of just how much we’re willing to suspend our disbelief. In this sense, Eagle Eye is very much a “go with it” movie: Either you go with the premise and it works, or you don’t and it doesn’t. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)