2008 · mystery · thriller · action
Eagle Eye
Directed by D.J. Caruso1h 58m2008
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
Our read: Eagle Eye (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive mystery · thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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