Eagle Eye: The Most Annoying Prank Call Ever
Click to watch the Eagle Eye trailer at Zuguide.com
Following in the footsteps of Chris Evans (Cellular) and Colin Farrell (Phone Booth), Shia LaBeouf has decided to take a break from hanging out with Indiana Jones and the Transformers to get bossed around in his own spine-tingling, phone-based thriller, Eagle Eye. Instead of trying to rescue a kidnapped Kim Basinger or being held hostage by Kiefer Sutherland with a sniper rifle, LaBeouf and costar Michele Monaghan are forced to burn through their anytime minutes by an unseen but seemingly all-knowing female voice who has framed them as terrorists. Under constant surveillance and the threat of death, LaBeouf and Monaghan are thrust into a political assassination plot and must do whatever the woman on the other end of the line says.
The Eagle Eye trailer opens with LaBeouf hustling his friends, including Turtle from Entourage, in a back room poker game. Returning home to his modest apartment, LaBeouf is surprised to find it stacked to the ceiling with guns, ammo, explosives, and suspicious drawings/schematics. This is when his cell phone rings and a woman’s voice tells him he has 30 seconds to flee before the FBI swoops in. Slow to react, LaBeouf is captured and finds his claim of complete innocence met with sarcasm by a thoroughly unamused Billy Bob Thornton. Meanwhile, Monaghan receives a threatening call of her own, explaining that her son has been kidnapped as video of him is shown on TVs in a window display. The unseen woman then hacks into LaBeouf’s “one phone call” just before a runaway crane destroys the side of the building where he is being held. Coerced into jumping onto the subway tracks below by the scrolling marquee on the building across the street, LaBeouf then meets up with Monaghan, and the two speed off through the city in a car that has been left for them. While Thornton and Rosario Dawson scramble to track them down, LaBeouf and Monaghan find themselves at the unseen woman’s mercy and must do her every bidding, including robbing an armored truck with shotguns.
My favorite part of the Eagle Eye trailer comes at the end when Rosario Dawson asks, “What if it’s a decoy to distract us from something 50 times bigger?” Why not 10 or 100 times bigger? It’s likely I’ll never know. Eagle Eye opens September 26, 2008. Check out the Eagle Eye trailer at Zuguide.com.
