Any current or fairly recent movie that deals with artificial intelligence as one of its central themes is sure to generate renewed interest as we all brace ourselves for the inevitable machine uprising, with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning tearing it up at the box office at the same time 2008’s Eagle Eye enjoys a resurgence on streaming.
Of course, that’s about the only thing the two have in common seeing as one is a spectacular blockbuster that marries its central theme to some barnstorming action sequences, dramatic tension, and characters you actually care about, something D.J. Caruso’s Shia LaBeouf vehicle most definitely does not.
Nonsense of the highest order in spite of not even being particularly entertaining, the leading man’s Jerry Shaw discovers his recently-deceased identical twin brother was part of a surreptitious government project that propels him into a string of life-threatening situations which seem to point in the direction of his entire existence being upended and manipulated by nefarious unseen forces and disembodied voices.
Eagle Eye was a decent-sized hit after bringing in almost $180 million from theaters, but no self-respecting slice of glossy big budget escapism wants to be deemed as preposterous for all the wrong reasons, which this movie is without a shadow of a doubt.
Undeterred, though, Prime Video subscribers have been flocking to Eagle Eye in their droves, so much so that they’ve launched it right onto the platform’s global most-watched list per FlixPatrol, and it’s even snagged a Top 10 spot in the United Kingdom for good measure.