Eagle Eye: Paranoia Anyone?

If you believe the film "Eagle Eye", Big Brother really is watching and can control every aspect of the interconenected world with just a flip of the switch.
In this Steven Spielberg produced flick, Shia LaBeouf plays a Copy Cabana employee suddenly framed for terrorism and Michelle Monaghan gets pulled into a caper to rescue Shia's character Jerry from the FBI and accompany him on a mission across half the eastern United States. Along the way they encounter computerized control of everything imagineable from the elevated trains in Chicago to national security computers. And, of course, there is the amazingly destructive new weapon they encounter and more.
In many ways, it is a typical spy flick with some nice twists in the plot to keep the audience wondering, for about half the movie, who the bad guy, or this case bad girl, on the telephone might be. The answer is revealed to the audience, and the main characters simultaneously about halfway through the movie and then the writers are a bit slower to reveal why she's gone bad and what exactly she might be up to.
It's not a bad movie for action sequences and the story line, but somewhere along the line whether it was in the screen play and the need for car chases and flashy special effects or in the original story line, things go awry.
Early in the movie, dozens of Chicago police officers are killed in a car chase and later dozens of innocent bystanders are killed in a confrontation between the bad guy and our heroes. While I am not opposed to killing in movies (hey, I like horror movies), the gratuitious body count in this movie is ridiculous.
While Speilberg does not Nuke the Fridge quite as literally as he did in his last project with Shia, Eagle Eye definitely suffers from too many special effects and too much effort to show us the dangers of Big Brother. The suspension of disbelief can only go so far.
For any long term movie fans, comparisons to the 1980s movie "War Games" abound and sadly, "War Games" works a little better.