YMMV / Eagle Eye

• Evil Is Cool: A.R.I.I.A., who has a badass and creative HAL-esque design, is an absolutely brilliant The Chessmaster, embodies Paranoia Fuel, and can pull off Final Destination style kills through planning and analysis. A great voice performance from Julianne Moore helps immensely.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The existence implied by the film, where a single machine can spy on everything it needs to successfully manipulate people to even a level of affecting things they perceive as their own choices, is sadly already a reality. Edward Snowden's leaks revealed that surveillance of the levels depicted in the film is, if anything, underselling the reality, with cops able to use a cell phone's microphone to sonar analyze a room in real time without needing a warrant and to such a level of accuracy that they can see what's on LCD screens based on the way the differences in voltage on the crystals affects how the sonar pulse reflects off them. In addition, Google, Facebook, and other websites already harvest data en masse to produce algorithmically derived profiles on people to a degree where not even abstaining from using them can prevent them from identifying you by the you-shaped hole you leave in the data, and they share all this data with their local governments, who in turn exchange said data with foreign ones. This data in turn has been caught being used to manipulate things like local and federal elections in the US, either by identifying targeted advertising for candidates or outright identifying who to prevent from participating through stricken voter rolls and such.
• He Really Can Act: Shia LaBeouf pulls off his grieving at Ethan's funeral expertly, making the scene into a massive Tear Jerker.
• Magnificent Bitch: The Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst, more commonly known as ARIIA, is an AI supercomputer who monitors for threats against America. When her insistence on calling off an attack on a possible target based on bad intel not only goes ignored but is also proven correct, ARIIA takes the terrorist attacks caused as a result as indication that America is a threat to itself and that she must activate a hypothetical protocol called "Project Guillotine" to wipe out all twelve people in the line of succession so that Secretary of Defense George Callister, the only one who trusted her judgment, will lead the country in the right way. ARIIA also extorts and pulls the strings of both Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman to do everything she tells them while also manipulating electronic external factors all around them to help them escape and keep them in line and to also keep herself from being outsmarted too. ARIIA is shown to do this with several others as part of her grand scheme as well and eventually nearly succeeds in said plan to have Rachel's young son Sam manipulated into triggering a signal that will set off a highly explosive crystal to take out the necessary targets.
• Not So Crazy Anymore: At the time the film was released, the idea of people, and A.I.s hacking into devices all over the world with the intent to spy on, track, and even intentionally harm others while scary was considered absurd, incredibly impractical if not impossible in most cases, and like a fear only the very wealthy, famous, and powerful would ever have to worry about. Less than twenty years later, it's now anything but, and is even easier, and more prevalent than depicted in the film.
• Moment of Awesome: The Reaper flying into the tunnel.
• Paranoia Fuel: A government supercomputer who can track your every move, manipulate anything in the environment, and listen in to a conversation by measuring the vibrations off a coffee cup. And it could be watching you right now.
  • And Acura SUV navigation systems have a nearly identical voice to A.R.I.I.A. And she takes over a car...
• Retroactive Recognition: A young Cameron Boyce in an early role before becoming recognizable after his role on Jessie.
• Strawman Has a Point: Why spend billions of dollars on a bleeding-edge intelligence-analysis system if you're not going to pay attention to its conclusions? Why should the guy who won the popularity contest get to smear hardworking geeks to cover his ass when his mistakes cause an international diplomatic incident? And if A.R.I.I.A. had some other option that would get the stupid prom queen out of the driver's seat besides a mass assassination, who else thinks she might have taken it?
• Tear Jerker: Jerry bursting into tears at Ethan's funeral after seeing his corpse.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Most cellphones used are either flip or old school Nokia phones. Not to mention franchises like Blockbuster and Circuit City (the latter of which is a plot point) are still around ^note Though ironically Circuit City would go under the following year after this film released. Dating the film around late 2000s.

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