Directed by:
Greg MarcksCinematography:
Lorenzo SenatoreComposer:
Bobby TahouriCast:
Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce, Sergey Gubanov, Amara Zaragoza, Yuriy Gosha Kutsenko, Martin Sheen, Steven Elder, Todd Jensen (more)Plots(1)
After American computer engineer Max Peterson (Shane West) receives a mysterious cell-phone in the post, the messages he receives offer him the chance to break the bank at a local casino. Unaware of the danger the phone has placed him in, Max soon finds himself at the centre of a worldwide manhunt, as shadowy security agencies chase him across continents, trying to stop him uncovering the truth about a global conspiracy involving the world's intelligence communities. (Universal Pictures UK)
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Eagle Eye feat. The Bourne Identity. This is unbridled stealing and it insults logic, and yet is also quite a fine B-movie. If you can get over the tragic West, you're taken in by tough guys Burns and Rhames and dragged through the back alleys of Prague to a desert warehouse where everything is resolved by a conversation about the Constitution. I appreciate the pace but I despair at the lack of imagination. I would have given it four stars for the first half, but in the end, it reminds you that you have to be more realistic.
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This is a low-budget spitting image of Eagle Eye (which itself is a duplicate of dozens of other movies) with the tragic Shane “I almost look like Timothy Olyphant" West. However, despite occasional unintentional absurdity and B-movieness, in places bordering on C-movieness, this movie isn’t so absolutely awful. And one plus is that it has a solid pace, so as a watchable relax movie, this more or less does the job.
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