I’m not sure I should do movie reviews.  I don’t get to enough to warrant knowing what’s good and what’s bad by industry standards, however I do know whether or not a movie was good or bad according to Heather standards, which, really, is all that matters if I go to a movie.

So if you’re like me, and I pray that you aren’t, if I liked it, you probably would to.

Tonight I escaped the youngin’s and headed to the theater to see Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf (his last movie was Transformers, but I didn’t see that movie) and Michelle Monaghan (her last movie was Made of Honor, which coincidentally was the last movie I saw in the theater.)

Shia’s a cutie. What kind of name is that anyway?

Back to the movie.

Overall, it was a really good movie, but one that I really had to pay attention to.  This is definately not a “movie you don’t have to think about” and there were several times that I was like “oh!  okay… i get it now.” which I’m sure made me appear to be the biggest dummy on the face of the planet.

The story begins with Jerry Shaw (Shia) scamming some friends in poker which was highly comical.  We later see him trying to make rent and can’t followed by a phone call informing him that his brother has died.  At his brother’s funeral, words were exchanged between father and son and we realize that the brother, Ethan, is the golden child.   He does no wrong while Jerry is the kid that never gets it together.

When Jerry goes to deposit a check for $1,000 in his once depleted bank account, he sees there’s a new balance of $750K… grabs the money and runs only to find his apartment filled with lots of weapons and stuff to make bombs.

That’s where the phone call comes from a strange woman who orders him to leave.

He doesn’t… and it gets interesting.

At the same time, Rachel, who just shipped her child off with a band trip to the Nation’s Capital gets a call from the same woman, joining these once strangers who will now take on artifical intelligence at it’s highest form.

Billy Bob Thorton stars as Agent Thomas Morgan and is one of the funniest members of the cast.  Which, I can say that this is not all action.  The one liners in this movie had the entire theater laughing.  If I could remember the really good ones I might be inclinded to update the IMDB site, but I can’t remember all of them… just the general gist, and that’s not going to cut it.

The movie is rated PG-13.  There’s some blood and some language, but I didn’t think it was over the top.  I’m one that jumps at action and adventure movies and there wasn’t alot of unexpected turns, but on the whole I’ll give this one two thumbs up.

Check out the movie trailer here…

And then get thee to the theaters to see it!

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