CINEMA: Eagle Eye

This week’s action thriller certainly moves forward at the speed of sound with the booms, bangs and special effects you’d expect from a big budget blockbuster. However, what Eagle Eye lacks is a coherent plot and plausible stunts because everything here is so improbable and unbelievable as to become preposterous.

Slacker Jerry (Shia LaBeouf) arrives home one day to find his flat filled with bomb-making materials and the Feds about to break down his door. He’s being set up by a female who keeps ringing his mobile and issuing ultimatums. Jerry has no idea who she is but what he does know is if he doesn’t follow her instructions he’s likely to end up dead. Soon Jerry is joined by Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) who is also enrolled by the voice on the mobile, and together they must figure out what the voice is up to and foil her plan before government agents Toby Grant (Billy Bob Thornton) and Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson) can catch them or kill them.

If you want car chases, cranes crashing through high rise buildings, death defying leaps from speeding trains, plenty of Big Brother paranoia and a plot that is so thin as to be anorexic then Eagle Eye certainly ticks all the relevant boxes, just don’t expect it to make any sense.      Dee Pilgrim