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Avg. Critic Score: 43 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    What Eagle Eye wants to do is show us technology's dark side: all the stuff that's there to make our lives easier - ATMs, PDAs, iPods, GPS, cell phones, PCs, "smart" houses - turned against us in a vast conspiracy. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    A movie only a copyright lawyer could love. It strip-mines at least three Hitchcock classics - "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man," and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - then commits unlawful assault on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for the heck of it. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    A sometimes entertaining flick that makes a lot of noise but doesn't have much to say. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The movie doesn't have three brain cells to rub together, but the premise carries it a long way. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    A terrorist thriller that isn't so much suspenseful as overbearing. Though it aspires to be an intriguing political cautionary tale, the movie is mostly about the feverish and jarringly choreographed chase scenes. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The word preposterous is too moderate to describe Eagle Eye. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline. It's not an assault on intelligence. It's an assault on consciousness. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    The picture's first 35 minutes sizzle until a Byzantine plot nudges the story toward near-parody in the final act. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A brain-squandering thriller. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    A shrill, far-fetched thriller. Read full review

  • 38
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is? Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Explosion-filled thriller that's best for older teens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this action thriller from the producers of Transformers -- which stars Shia LaBeouf and promises plenty of "blow 'em up" scenes -- is likely to appeal to teenagers, especially boys. But while the movie is plenty violent, it's not especially graphic: It's obvious that people are dying in all of the explosions, but there's little blood. The language is stronger than most PG-13 films, featuring a couple of "f--k"s and the frequently used "a--hole," "s--t," and "bitch." Aside from a couple of early, tame conversations about dating and sex, there's only one little kiss in the movie. Product placements aren't overwhelming, but one extended sequence highlights a Porsche Cayenne SUV.
  • Families can talk about the film's Orwellian message. Is the idea of Big Brother even more frightening now that people share so much of their personal information online? How does the film depict technology and government surveillance? Kids: Does what happens to Jerry and Rachel make you at all cautious about social networking sites, blog, and other online activities?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The movie's major themes are the moral ambiguity of the president's (and government's) decisions, the ethical dilemma of doing something illegal to save either your life or the lives of loved ones, and the idea that "we the people" have a duty to revolt against corrupt leaders. Other themes include a single mother's selflessness and a man's wish to honor his dead brother and make his father proud.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Lots of car explosions and bombs that kill police officers, special agents, and civilians, but there isn't that much actual blood. The violence begins with a guided missile attack on a village in the Middle East where a terrorist is supposedly living; there's collateral damage from the attack. A couple of individual characters are killed. During a funeral service, a deceased man's body is shown in a coffin. A heavily burned man's corpse is visible in one scene.
  • sex false2 Sex: Jerry and his co-workers discuss someone's chances of sleeping with his girlfriend; Rachel asks her friends who's "getting any" a couple shares a chaste kiss.
  • language false4 Language: Stronger and more frequent than many PG-13 films; words include "a--hole," "hell," "goddamn," "s--t," "dick," "bitch," "oh my God," and two uses of "f--k."
  • consumerism false2 Consumerism: Porsche Cayenne, Dell, Amtrak.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false2 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Rachel drinks in a bar with friends (all characters are over 21).
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