Eagle Eye is so brazenly stupid that I have to just stand up and salute it.
It almost feels like the writers (four of em!) got into a daring match – just how long can we keep this up? How ridiculous can we make this without breaking. And then when you get to the end, you realize they wrote the whole thing backward. All they did was take a scenario you’ve heard pitched a thousand times and get you there in the most insane and convoluted way imaginable.
And I think it takes great chutzpah to that! Plus – a visual cue from Rollerball and The Man Who Knew Too Much in the same picture?!? Who can resist?!!??
I didn’t like it as much as you did, but you were right to recommend it. Instructive from a Hollywood screenwriting perspective.