EAGLE EYE

Eagle Eye is a 2008 action/thriller picture directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an unnamed caller into carrying out a plot by a possible terrorist group.

The United States armed forces have a lead on a supposed terrorist in the Middle East, but as the man is a outsider, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DoD's computer system recommends that the venture be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort approval, but the President orders the project be carried out anyway. This turns into a political criticism when all of the victims turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory suicide bombings intent US general public in response.

Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University failure who is out of way and faces monetary trouble. He realizes that his more ambitious twin brother Ethan, an Air Force lieutenant with expertise in parallel algorithms and quantum electronics, is dead. After the funeral in January 2009, he goes to take out some money from an ATM and is surprised to see that he has $750,000 in his bank account. When he comes back home, he locates his apartment filled with a large amount of arms, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unidentified woman, who explains that the FBI will apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape.

Not believing her, he is arrested by the FBI and sent to an interrogation room where he meets Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to meet with Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson), the mysterious woman arranges Jerry's escape over a phone and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). The unknown woman is coercing Rachel into assisting Jerry by menacing to assassinate her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C., from Chicago for a band recital.

The woman helps the duo to avoid the Chicago Police and FBI units, representing the ability to remotely control virtually any networked machine, such as traffic lights, cell phones, computerized cranes, and even electrical wires. While Jerry and Rachel obey her directives, the woman has other 'agents' create a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. They reach a Circuit City electronics shop to which the woman instructs them. Over some television screens she introduces herself to them: she is undercover supercomputer called "Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst" (ARIIA) programmed with gathering intelligence from all over the world.
Because of the mistake made by the President at the, Ariia decided that the executive branch is a danger to the public good and must be eliminated. Ariia plans to destroy the President's cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. She has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who had agreed with its proposal to abort the project, as the descendant to the presidency. Ariia does not disclose this to Jerry or Rachel, simply explaining that she is helping the citizens of the United States.

At the Pentagon, where Ariia is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to stop Ariia from carrying out her plot. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they converse the situation in a sealed room to check Ariia from hearing their chat. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the supercomputer, where Ariia forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use his own biometrics to dominate the lockdown, letting her to go ahead with the plan.

Ariia shows Jerry CCTV footage displaying Ethan's untreatable car crash, explaining that she orchestrated his demise because he was a threat to her intentions. Ariia then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to check the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot do it. Rachel is led out of the building by Ariia while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been cautioned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's tale and takes him to the United States Capitol. Ariia sends a MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. They hardly escape the drone's first pass, and Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to eliminate the drone and save Jerry. Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the supercomputer and destroys it.

Rachel is unintentionally given the explosive necklace by an official who was also coerced by Ariia and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry enters, dressed as a Capitol policeman and shoots into the air, hindering the feat and emptying the room. Jerry is then shot numerous times by a Secret Service agent, who is uninformed of the Jerry's actions.

In a trial, the Secretary of Defense urges that any more supercomputer should not be built, he warns them. Ethan receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, wounded but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal.

It was released on September 26, 2008.As of November 29, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 27% of critics gave the film clear reviews based on 159 reviews. It is like The Game (1997, David Fincher).