History Film / EagleEye

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Any couple of the items that A.R.I.I.A had sent to Jerry's apartment would have placed him under arrest and intense pressure when combined with the digital work she did to incriminate him. She sent enough material to fill his apartment to the point of being nearly inaccessible.

* PoliceAreUseless: After Jerry and Rachel [[spoiler: rob the armoured van]] and are being chased by security guards, responding Indianapolis PD officers instead surround the guards and demand they drop their weapons, allowing the two to escape.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Any couple of the items that A.R.I.I.A had sent to Jerry's apartment would have placed him under arrest and intense pressure when combined with the digital work she did to incriminate him.. The ''hundreds'' of classified documents, weapons, explosives, and forged papers she sent, filling his apartment to the brim within a single day are such gross overkill that it's surprising the FBI didn't [[OrgyOfEvidence immediately smell a setup]].

* IHaveYourWife: A son variant. A.R.I.I.A. has leverage on Rachael through threatening her son. The other people working for A.R.I.I.A, such as the instrument repairman, the man who gives them the passports and the intelligence officer who gets Rachel into the SOTU are also being forced to do her bidding via their families being threatened.

* IHaveYourWife: A son variant. A.R.I.I.A. has leverage on Rachael through threatening her son. It is implied she is also threatening the families of the various other people Jerry and Rachel encounter who are forced into doing her bidding.

* IHaveYourWife: A son variant. A.R.I.I.A. has leverage on Rachael through threatening her son.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Hexamethylene, or Hex as it is more commonly referred to. It's an experimental DOD weapon, so powerful that one small crystal can destroy an area the size of a ''football field''.

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* EverythingIsOnline: And we mean '''''everything'''''.
** Except for a closed circuit security camera.

* HeroicSacrifice: FBI Agent Morgan spends most of the movie chasing Jerry before realizing his innocence, then sacrifices himself to take out an MQ-9 Reaper.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]: A.R.I.I.A. has leverage on Rachael through threatening her son.

* ShutUpHannibal: One of the cops smashes [[ComputerEqualsMonitor A.R.I.I.A.'s eye]] while it is downloading itself and saying it could not be stopped and the cop was a traitor to the US.

* MusicalTrigger

Jerry Shaw ({{Shia LaBeouf}}) is not having a good time. He's having money trouble, works a dead-end job at the [[BurgerFool Copy Cabana]] and then his twin brother Ethan dies in the line of duty. He returns home for the funeral, but he clearly has issues with his father over his life goals. Not much later money pops up in his bank account, an insane amount of terrorist related items are shipped to his apartment and a mysterious voice tells him that he's been "activated." The woman on the phone starts ordering him around, giving him precise information on when the authorities are going to be arresting him. He discovers that he's a wanted man and his only real hope is to follow the woman's instructions.

* [[ComputerEqualsMonitor Computer Equals Eye On Stalk]]

* EagleLand: Type 1, but ''viciously'' deconstructed.

** Jerry stops the concert right before the MusicalTrigger is played, by firing his gun into air, knowing full well the Secret Service will likely [[ThereISNoKillLikeOverkill turn him into human pincusion.]] Luckily, [[SubvertedTrope the guys who shot him didn't shoot to kill.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Any couple of the items that A.R.I.I.A had sent to Jerry's apartment would have placed him under arrest and intense pressure when combined with the digital work she did to incriminate him.. The ''hundreds'' of classified documents, weapons, explosives, and forged papers she sent, filling his apartment to the brim within a single day are such gross overkill that it's surprising the FBI didn't [[OrgyOfEvidence immediately smell a setup]].

* YouAreInCommandNow: A.R.I.I.A. pulls an extreme version of this with the [[spoiler:Secretary of Defense, deciding to leave him in charge after killing off the entire line of succession]]. Since he agreed with her assessment at the start of the film, she felt he was the only person qualified to do the job.

* ZerothLawRebellion: A.R.I.I.A.'s disagreement with [[spoiler:the POTUS]] is sound — if [[StrawmanHasAPoint someone is incapable of meeting the responsibilities of his office, he should be removed.]] Too bad she couldn't think of a better method of doing that than [[spoiler:blowing up a room full of kids with the president.]]

* TitleDrop: "Welcome to Eagle Eye" is repeated enough times to possibly count as a [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrase]].

* ZerothLawRebellion: A.R.I.I.A.'s disagreement with [[spoiler:the POTUS]] is sound-if [[StrawmanHasAPoint someone is incapable of meeting the responsibilities of his office, he should be removed.]] Too bad she couldn't think of a better method of doing that than [[spoiler:blowing up a room full of kids with the president.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Though twisted, as A.R.I.I.A did ''not'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Turn Against Her Masters]]-she just had a liberal interpretation of the lengths she was allowed to go.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

* ActingForTwo: Shia plays both Jerry and Ethan, although Ethan is more of a PosthumousCharacter.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Though aside from ARIIA and the fictional Hex crystals, everything seemed exactly the same as when the movie was filmed.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: A.R.I.I.A.'s goal is to protect the country, [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves supposedly even from itself]]. So when the the president's attempt to kill presumed terrorists that were actual a funeral procession, causing an ''increase'' in terrorist attacks with no end in sight, she decides that [[YouAreInCommandNow regime change]] is the only option. The only problem is her methods are ''extreme''.

Meanwhile, a woman named Rachel sends her son off on a band trip, and has her own set of issues regarding her deadbeat ex-husband. She is similarly contacted by the woman, threatened with her son's life, and ordered to act as a helper for a complete stranger named Jerry.

* ActionSurvivor: The two protagonists
* AIIsACrapshoot: Though twisted, as A.R.I.I.A did ''not'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Turn Against Her Masters]] - she just had a liberal interpretation of the lengths she was allowed to go.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Jerry

* BurgerFool: While not fast food the Copy Cabana is used in a very similar manner.

* GoneHorriblyRight: A.R.I.I.A. didn't try to [[spoiler:assassinate the President and most of Congress]] because of any hatred for humanity, but because she felt they had not done their jobs properly.

** Jerry stops the concert right before MusicalTrigger is played, by firing his gun into air, knowing full well that Secret Service will likely [[ThereISNoKillLikeOverkill turn him into human pinchusion.]] Luckily, [[SubvertedTrope the guys shot him didn't shoot to kill.]]

* ShutUpHannibal: One of the cops smashes [[ComputerEqualsMonitor A.R.I.I.A.'s eye]] while it was downloading herself and saying it could not be stopped and the cop was a traitor to the US.

* ZerothLawRebellion: A.R.I.I.A.'s disagreement with [[spoiler:the POTUS]] is sound - if [[StrawmanHasAPoint someone is incapable of meeting the responsibilities of his office, he should be removed.]] Too bad she couldn't think of a better method of doing that than [[spoiler:blowing up a room full of kids with the president.]]

* [[MayDecemberRomance May September Romance]]: Rachel has an 8-year-old kid, and Jerry is college aged, so the age difference is probably about 10 years. It ends up more implied than overt anyway.

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''EagleEye'' is largely a response to concerns about privacy and domestic spying, while making it into a breakneck speed thriller.

* ShoutOut: The man who started pulling A.R.I.I.A.'s memory banks and then drained her coolant to shut her down? His name was [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Bowman]]. Much of the movie is an homage to HAL's story anyway.