Eagle Eye

Overall: B-
Story: C+
Acting: A-
Direction: C+
Visuals: B+

Ever since I saw the preview of Eagle Eye, I had been telling my wife that we should go see this movie. After watching the movie I felt the storyline has been shown before. The topic this movie is trying to discussed is nothing new, how good things/technology may go bad and the conspiracy theory on the government collecting data.
This movie to me seems to be a merge of the story plot of Terminator and enemy of the state.

I think the Shia is playing his usual role again, a carefree teenage boy with some wits. He did showed a little more range of emotion in this movie than he was in the Terminator (did not get to see Indiana Jones 4, so can not comment on that.)

Michelle play well with her part as well, but to me, her character is not as memorable. If you asked me to summarize what is special or unique about her character, I really can not say anything except that she is playing a very typical single mom who will do anything to save her son.

The next few paragraphs will contain some spoiler, so if you have not seen the movie, you may want to skip reading forward

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There are few questions that doe snot seen logical to me.

1. Why does Shia has to read the sentence to unlock the project. Eagle Eye seems to still running with the project. If the point of the project was to kill the president, the machine was still carrying out the plan.

2. If Eagle Eye could have kill the Guard with a crane, why can it kill Shia the same way?

Overall though, it is not a bad movie, is just not as great as I would imagine.

The Dark Knight

To me, this movie should be called the Joker more than the Dark Knight. No way that I am indicating this movie is a joke, but Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker outshines the role of the batman. Nevertheless, this is one of the best Batman movies on the big screen.

In this movie, you will see the rise of Joker and the making of Two-face. As mentioned earlier, the role of Joker is portrayed brilliantly by Heath Ledger. The Joker is portrait as this crazy individual who seeks chaos. No longer is the criminal in the super hero movie portrait as a one dimensional lunatic that just seek chaos. Joker is not only seeking chaos, but he is always playing a mind game with everyone and creating traps for everyone to fill in. I remember when Jack Nickleson portrayed the Joker in the 90's, Joker is just portrayed as this lunatic that seeks chaotic. Never was joker being portrayed as this master mind criminal.

Harvey Dent, aka Two face, was also being introduce in this movie (towards the end). The movie did a good job explaining why Dent turn from the light of Gothem into a master criminal. the lost of Love and the betral of the commerade made him start doubting the justice he belives in and turned himself against everything he ever believe. I however did not capture why he was called Two faced when he was working in district before his face was burned.

Even though this is one of the best Batman movie, I have to say the role of Batman is much less memoriable. Not saying Chrsitan Bale did a poor job portraying the role of Batman, is just that the storyline of the criminal seems much stronger.