Eagle Eye

            Shaya Labeauf (Transformers) plays a double role in this interesting, though unoriginal and underdeveloped and stilly man vs. machine thriller. He plays a young loser who is always short on rent, unable to get where he wants to, and really living in the shadow of his older brother, a top of his class air force cadet computer programmer in the special projects division. Twins with different paths.

            The plot gets off to a bang when he returns from his brother funeral, the victim of a horrific car accident to his squalid apartment to find it filled with armaments and the FBI on the way to arrest him as a terrorist. He is also brought into connection with a young mother, and the two of them, being surveilled by an unknown third party are manipulated into traveling to a secret government installation in Washington D.C.

            The whole thing is really ridiculous as it is revealed halfway (in a Best Buy entertainment system display, of course) through that the party surveilling them is an AI device developed by the airforce and for which the twin brother was a key operator. The AI device has apparently taken a sufficient belief that humanities danger to itself was enough to warrant it’s overtaking the government through a deep rooted series of manipulations, and in his dying efforts to shut the program down, the twin placed a genetic lock which only his brother could unlock.

            It’s up to the failure twin to sieze the day and overcome his apprehension to success. Classic underdog story meets The Machine Stops, this is really poorly executed, and a cheap imitation of the matrix or terminator series. 1, and the acting and effects are not worth watching the other detractors.