Eagle Eye
I saw Eagle Eye, a newly released movie over the weekend and thought
I would make an effort to get my two bits worth about it written here on the blog prior to it coming up for video release, which is incidentally what I am going to be doing for some other movies that I have some notes about. The premise of the movie is one of two twins, one of which is a the over achiever and the other well the under achiever. The over achiever has recently been suffered an accidental death. The over achiever, along with another main character and several other minor characters start getting messages about they have been activated and are given instructions – always via an electronic means.
Turns out the instructions are coming from some super computer that was designed to determine the threat to the United States from terrorism from millions of data feeds. The computer is designed to make informed choices regarding the actual threats and give recommendations. In a cross between HAL (of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame) and that of the robots from Asimov’s I, Robot series, as it uses it intelligence to make choices it was not programmed or authorized to do. When the computer suggests one recommendation and certain Washington executives choose in an exactly opposite direction, which of course leads to a greater threat to American citizens, including increased attacks, things get ugly. The computer then decides, through certain articles in the Constitution itself, that it must act as a citizen army to remedy the problems that have occurred, wouldn’t Jefferson be proud, even if is a computer leading the mini-revolt.
The movie itself is pretty good from a pure story line point of view and has more than enough action to keep someone interested. That is interested so long as you do not think about the logistics of certain aspects of what the computer does from remote, is able to compute on the fly in less than mere nano-seconds, and so on. Perhaps I am just to close to the actual technology to allow my willing suspension of dis-belief to have fully kicked in on this particular movie. Perhaps too though the movie makers got to the point of just about having me there on several occasions only to let a glaring mistake slip in here and there. Overall, if you can easily drop down into that almost numb mindless place it is not a bad flick to see once, as some of the action scenes and special effects just rock. Definitely do not think too long about things and certainly do not see it twice though.
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