Oh Big Brother!

Here8217;s your answer, imagined by D J Caruso as a shiny golden mother computer, surrounded by lots of her mini-mes, and burrowed 36 floors down inside the Pentagon.

All that Intel goes inside this computer, and 8220;she8221; monitors it to give the US Government 8220;credible8221; 8212; give that a wide berth 8212; leads on what seems suspicious.

One day she gets very, very angry, and as all of us know from Hal 9000 2001: A Space Odyssey onwards, that isn8217;t good news. Considering she can rig almost anything automated, from traffic lights to F-16 bombers to cranes sorting out trash to electric towers, not to mention mobile phones, that8217;s even worse news.

Caught in the middle of the madness are Jerry Shaw Shia LaBeouf and Rachel Michelle Monaghan, for reasons revealed much later. Suffice to say that one fine day, they get these mysterious calls and then messages springing up virtually everywhere 8212; from signboards to traffic lights 8212; telling them to be there, carry something and do that.

8220;Refusal is not an option,8221; the unknown voice we find out soon that it8217;s the mother computer tells them, underlining it with frying up a man with high-voltage electric cables in front of their eyes.

As long as there is a terror threat around and cars to blow up, Eagle Eye isn8217;t the first or likely to be the last film about over-reliance on technology backfiring, and Caruso certainly doesn8217;t let the pace slag. As for plausibility, it would be foolish to seek the same in a film such as this.

However, this is LaBeouf8217;s vehicle, and you have to admit he does a commendable job of it.