Movie Monday

I thought I would try a Movie Monday based on movie trailers. This is a work in progress. What I did was watch trailers from a Top 5 movie and then decide what they make me expect from the movie. Let’s see how it goes.

Eagle Eyes: (7 trailer reports, spliced together for a sort of chronological order)
1- At the ATM machine, the hero discovers his checking account has $750,000 in it. Money starts spewing out. He returns to his apartment and it’s filled with guns, passports, chemicals for bombs.
2- The hero is being interviewed by an FBI-type and told he can be detained indefinitely. (Is the hero’s brother involved?)
3- Sometime before or after the last scene, FBI-types are investigating a truck robbery of chemicals. The hero’s name is mentioned.
4- A mysterious female voice is on the phone with the hero in the detection room. She gives him commands. (She apparently called before and told him he would be arrested.) She tells him to jump from a building (where he is detained?) and he does.
5- Hero races fast down an escalator into the car of woman (who was briefly flashed across the trailer before where she was told her child could be in danger), the mysterious voice tells them to drive and at what speed, and controls the lights.
6- Finally, the hero, alone, is driving a car very fast. He’s being tracked electronically. A very low-flying plane flies right overhead. A rocket is launched to hit his car but hits a truck which turns over in a fiery crash..

What I Learned - This is a mystery thriller. We, and the hero, have to find out what is happening to his life. Could be a good, mindless adventure. Could be a disappointing, mindless adventure. Unseen, controlling forces always give an air of unreality to movies (as if movies were real) so this could build up rapidly to a disappointing solution. But it does seem like this could be mindlessly entertaining, which isn’t always a bad thing. Kafka, it ain’t.