Blends together post-9/11 terrorism paranoia with late 2000s technology paranoia for a movie that doesn't explore either theme in any sort of engaging way.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2025

Some may be able to pull the plug on their sense of logic and enjoy the procession of inanity, but when it’s all over, the result isn’t nearly as interesting or as clever as it could be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2024

It's a film for people whose brains have been permanently muted.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2020

There is some interesting supporting work from Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis and Billy Bob Thornton, but it's not enough to save the film's ridiculous screenplay and D.J. Caruso's distracting direction.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 15, 2019

The script becomes muddled and frustratingly opaque.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

In Eagle Eye, we're meant to fear our GPS.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

As the film drags on, there are several nauseatingly dogmatic moments that make you feel like you're trapped in some kind of uber-liberal rally.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2011

A warning about the threat in our own backyard -- but as often is the case with Hollywood blockbusters, the warning comes across more like fear-mongering than constructive social criticism. Personally, I prefer my cinema sans mongering.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011

Eagle Eye isn't awful, just trite ... it suffers from the same problem most high concept films have; it's all smoke, but no fire.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 21, 2011

The trouble with Shia? He's no Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant. And as for Caruso, well, Brian De Palma can rest easy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 7, 2010

Everything's chopped up into those woozy, bite-size snippets of flashing lights and spinning tires, thrown into a blender and then regurgitated on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2009

Eagle Eye is a totally derivative, unoriginal techno-thriller, cribbing scenes and ideas from better films. ... But it's also thoroughly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

...one could certainly do far worse as far as movies of this ilk go.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2009

This is nobody's idea of an intelligent political thriller (or satire), but it is an orgy for the senses.

Full Review | Jan 6, 2009

So colossally ridiculous (and transparently derivative) that willing suspension of disbelief is a fool's errand. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 31, 2008

Attempting to tap into the public's collective fears and suspicions comes D.J. Caruso's preposterous Eagle Eye, an action film with plenty of thrills but I have no idea what alternate reality it's set in.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2008

What, you can't relate to someone being controlled by an omniscient machine?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2008

...one long, hyperkinetic chase, with the audience wondering what in the heck is happening.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 22, 2008