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Shia LaBeouf's Eagle Eye has grossed an estimated $29.2 million and has thus become his fourth straight No. 1 movie. Not yet a great actor, LaBeouf has proved once again that he can bring people in theaters, and is thus poised to be part of future big-money movies. Second place was taken by that weak movie starring Richard Gere, Nights in Rodanthe, which raked in an estimated $13.6 million. On third place there's last weekend's ruler, Lakeview Terrace, with $7 million.
Just like the previous movie directed by D.J. Caruso, Disturbia, Eagle Eye is a bit of a patchwork as it mixes a little "2001: A Space Odyssey" with "War Games," "Demon Seed," "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Enemy of the State," as well as many other movies about terror, politics and computers gone wild and looking for world domination (cartoons also frequently use this plotline).
The movie follows the steps of Chicago copy-store employee Jerry Shaw, played by Shia LaBeouf (star of "Transformers"), the black sheep of his family, a wanderer, a college dropout late on his rent and a loser, compared to his identical twin Ethan, an Air Force officer who just died mysteriously in a car accident. His sidekick is Rachel Holloman, played by Michelle Monaghan, a single mom who just put her young son on the train from Chicago to Washington, D.C., where his school orchestra is scheduled to perform at the Kennedy Center.
Together they struggle to save the world from a malfunctioning supercomputer which is using a recent error in judgment by the president as an excuse to kill off the chain of command from the top down so as to put the secretary of defense (Michael Chiklis) in charge of the country.
“Nights in Rodanthe,” theater director and playwright George C. Wolfe’s first feature film, is about Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane), an unhappy mother of two whose husband (Christopher Meloni) is cheating on her. She travels to Rodanthe, an incredibly picturesque little town by the sea, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where her best friend, Jean (Viola Davis) has a charming inn.
Dr. Paul Flanner, portrayed by Richard Gere, lost a patient during a routine surgical operation and he has come to talk to the widower (Scott Glenn), who lives in Rodanthe. The two main characters eventually fall in love.
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