Eagle Eye is a 2008 thriller film directed by
D. J. Caruso and starring
Shia LaBeouf and
Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out a plan by a possible terrorist organization. The film was released in regular
35mm theaters and
IMAX theaters.
Plot
The
United States armed forces have a lead on a suspected
terrorist in
Baluchistan but getting a positive identification, before using a
drone aircraft to kill him without harming innocent civilians, proves difficult. The
Department of Defense's computer system recommends that the mission be aborted. The
Secretary of Defense (
Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort recommendation, but the
President orders the mission be carried out anyway. When all of the victims turn out to be civilians, the event
blows up on them and terrorists carry out retaliatory suicide bombings targeting US citizens.
Jerry Shaw (
Shia LaBeouf) is a
Stanford University dropout who lacks direction and faces financial difficulty. He finds out that his more ambitious
twin brother Ethan, an
Air Force lieutenant with expertise in
parallel algorithms and
quantum electronics, is dead. Following the funeral in January 2009, he goes to withdraw some money from an
ATM and is surprised to see that he has $751,000 in his account. When he returns home, he finds his apartment filled with a large number of weapons, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call...
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