Eagle Eye and Suffer,Dude

Two quick reviews of a couple of redbox offerings.

Eagle Eye was everything that my sister Kelly wrote in her review. This is an action movie from the start. The car chase scenes were great with a couple of amazing crashes. This is a big brother gone wild kind of movie. The huge computer Eagle Eye, decides to have a mind of its own. Its amazing how integrated we are with the server machines.. in many ways that we have little notion of their connectivity. This is also a movie that combines gone in 60 seconds with Deja Vu. It was interesting and well worth my buck. This weekend the Redboxes in Merced were out of the movie. I think that I lucked out with one that was returned.

The second movie, Surfer,Dude, is one you can pretty easily save your buck and don't even rent it. Staring and produced by Matthew McConaughey, its about a surfer that won't sell out to the corporate types that want to buy his name and his surfing skills. Then along comes a drought of So Cal waves. He tries all kinds of superstitious behavior to bring the waves back.. to no avail. Finally he seizes on the idea that the waves have not come because of his lack of involvement in corporate image. There are some interesting cameos of Willie Nelson and the star of Woody Harrelson, of White Man can't jump fame. And there is some eye candy and some adventure shots out on the surf.. but this movie despite its seven years in production probably shouldn't have been made. It is in short supply also in the Redbox.

Happy Redboxing.. Pat