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Eagle Eye Review

If Eagle Eye were released in the early 1990s, it might now qualify as a classic. A film about the potential dangers of our plugged-in, hooked-up culture, it would have stood up beautifully against computer-based thrillers of that time like The Net or Hackers, not to mention the spate of technophobic Michael Crichton adaptations (Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure) that excited and terrified audiences during the dawn of the internet era. Unfortunately, in an age when folks can practically shoot a feature film on their cell phones and web sites can offer real-time satellite images of your backyard, this kind of story is about as bone-chilling as a brain freeze from the last sip of an Icee: you forgot it could happen, but then you remember you were the one who drank the thing in the first place. A story born from the well-worn hardware of technothrillers past but without the proper software upgrade to accompany it, Eagle Eye is a mediocre attempt at suspense that manages to lose all of its dramatic weight at the exact moment it drops its heaviest truths.
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