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Hasil Lacak Teknologi Dalam Eagle Eye

Kamis, 16 Oktober 2008 | 13:12 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) telah memilih lari dari keluarga, sementara saudara kembarnya, Ethan, selalu menjadi si nomor satu. Ethan merintis karier militer, seperti ayah mereka.

Jerry sempat mencoba hal yang sama, tapi kemudian ia menjadi desertir. Hidupnya dilanjutkan sebagai backpacker keliling dunia dan terdampar menjadi staf di kios fotokopi Copy Cabana. Hidup lusuh dan minim motivasi.

Pada suatu hari, Ethan mendadak tewas dalam sebuah kecelakaan. Di pemakaman, Jerry kembali bertemu dengan keluarganya setelah tiga tahun tak ada kabar. Reuni itu berakhir dengan ketegangan antara Jerry dan sang ayah, yang menyelipkan cek US$ 1.000 di tas putranya itu.

Tanda petaka dimulai di sebuah anjungan tunai mandiri, saat Jerry mencairkan cek itu. Uang di rekeningnya berlebih US$ 750 ribu! Bukannya senang, Jerry panik dan berlari pulang. Masuk ke kamar sewaan yang bayarannya tertunggak, Jerry makin kaget menemukan tumpukan dus berisi senjata berbagai jenis lengkap dengan amunisi, tumpukan amonium nitrat--bahan pupuk yang bisa diolah menjadi bom, dan berbagai paspor atas namanya.

Lalu, telepon genggamnya berdering. Suara seorang perempuan menyuruh dia lari dalam hitungan detik, karena tim FBI tengah mendekat. Jerry tertangkap dan diinterogasi oleh agen Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). Jerry berkeras menyatakan dirinya dijebak. Saat ditinggalkan sendiri di sebuah ruangan, si penelepon misterius menghubunginya dan membebaskan Jerry melalui jendela yang dihantam dengan sebuah crane.

Eagle Eye adalah techno-thriller bertema "Big Brother is watching you". Kemudahan dan integrasi teknologi dalam kehidupan membuat profil seseorang bisa dilacak. Telepon genggam, rekening bank, rekam jejak transaksi di Internet, surat elektronik, kamera pemantau, dan satelit, semua bisa dipakai membuntuti dan melacak dokumentasi seseorang.

Ide awal Eagle Eye muncul di kepala Steven Spielberg, produser eksekutif sejumlah film laris. Makan waktu bertahun-tahun untuk mengendapkan ide itu agar tak terlalu condong ke sci-fi. "Saat itu, teknologi belum terintegrasi dalam masyarakat seperti sekarang ini," kata penulis sekaligus produser Alex Kurtzman. Akhirnya, pada 2006, Spielberg membawa ide itu ke Kurtzman.

Adegan kejar-kejaran yang sambung-menyambung, dan berbagai adegan aksi berefek spesial di film ini bisa cukup menghibur penonton. Akhir film? Standar Hollywood. Untungnya, tak ada keintiman yang dipaksakan antara Jerry dan Rachel.

Situs rottentomatoes.com menilai, Eagle Eye banyak meminjam plot-plot dari film-film terdahulu yang sudah diakui keren. The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) memberi rating 7 dari 10 untuk film ini.

Lalu, suara siapakah si penelepon misterius di film itu? Di kredit film tak ditemukan siapa pengisi suaranya, sebab aktris pemilik suara itu, menurut IMDB, memang memilih tak diberi kredit. Dia adalah Julianne Moore.

Ibnu Rusydi


Judul: Eagle Eye 
Sutradara: D.J. Caruso
Pemain: Shia LaBeouf, Michele Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton
Genre: Action, Thriller 
Durasi: 118 menit

The film begins with the armed forces getting a lead on a suspected terrorist in the middle east. As the man is a recluse, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DOD's computer system recommends that the mission be aborted. From continued aerial surveillance of the area, the suspect is apparently attending a funeral but the possibility that it is a façade makes those present all nervous - the system continues to recommend abort. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort recommendation, but the President orders the mission be carried out anyway. This turns into a political backlash when all those killed turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory bombings are carried out in response.

The scene abruptly shifts to Chicago, to the life of Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf), a Stanford University drop out who not only lacks any real direction in his life, but also faces great financial difficulty. He gets a phone call from his parents telling him that his twin brother, Ethan, is dead. Following the funeral, Jerry gets a $1,000 check from his dad. When Jerry tries to deposit the check and withdraw some money from the ATM, he is surprised to see that he has $751,000 in his account. When he returns home he finds his apartment filled with a large amount of weapons, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unknown woman, who explains that the FBI is about to apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape. Not believing her, he is caught by the FBI, led by Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) and Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson). The unknown woman arranges Jerry's escape and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). Holloman is being coerced into helping by the woman, who threatens to kill her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C. from Chicago for a band recital.

The woman helps the pair to avoid the police and FBI units, demonstrating the ability to remotely control virtually any networked device, such as traffic lights, cell phones, and even automated cranes. While Jerry and Rachel follow her instructions, the woman has a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. Jerry and Rachel are led from Chicago to Washington, D.C. via Indianapolis and Dayton through various means. Along the way, they are introduced to the woman, who is actually a top secret super-computer called ARIA tasked with gathering intelligence from all over the world. ARIA, the overtaken computer, can control virtually anything electronic to that end. In light of the mistake made by the President at the beginning of the film, ARIA has decided that the executive branch is a threat to the public good and must be eliminated. ARIA plans to destroy the President's Cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. It has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who agreed with its recommendation to abort, as the successor to the presidency. She does not reveal this to Jerry or Rachel, merely explaining that she is trying to help the people of the United States...

At the Pentagon, where ARIA is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to prevent ARIA from carrying out her plan. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they discuss the situation in a sealed room to prevent ARIA from hearing their conversation. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the super computer, where ARIA forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use an override code allowing her to go ahead with the plan. Jerry observes CCTV footage displaying Ethan's fatal car crash (due to sabotaged traffic lights) realising ARIA orchastrated Ethan's death since his twin could've stopped her. She then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to prevent the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot bring herself to do it. Rachel is led out of the building by ARIA while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been warned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's story and takes him to the United States Capitol. On their way, however, ARIA sends an MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to destroy the craft and save Jerry.

Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the super computer and is successful in destroying it (by piercing her positronic cpu), but not before ARIA uploads roughly a quarter of its memory to another location. Rachel is given the explosive necklace and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, begins to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a high F on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry successfully infiltrates the vicinity and fires Morgan's pistol into the air, stopping the performance and emptying the room just as Sam starts to play the the F, but provoking a Secret Service agent to shoot him in the shoulder.

In the aftermath of the chaos ARIA caused, the Secretary of Defense urges that another super computer should not be built. Ethan posthumously receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, injured but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal. The film ends with Jerry attending Sam's birthday party. Jerry gives Sam the video game Rock Band and Sam and his friends go off and play it. Rachel thanks him for attending and kisses him on the cheek. She then tells Jerry that she is glad that he is there. After a second of silence, Jerry tells her, "Me too," and the film ends.

[edit] Main cast

• Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Damon Shaw/Ethan W. Shaw: a young slacker who is framed as a terrorist and vows to clear his name with the FBI's help.
• Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloman: a single mother who is also framed as a terrorist and vows to clear her name with her companions.
• Rosario Dawson as Zoe Perez: a government agent who is tracking down the terrorist cell.^[2]
• Billy Bob Thornton as Thomas Morgan: the patriotic leader of a FBI team tracking down the cell.^[3]
• Ethan Embry as Toby Grant: Morgan's companion whom he assists into tracking down the cell.^[4]
• Anthony Mackie as Major Bowman: A soldier assigned to monitor the super-computer.
• Michael Chiklis as George Callister: The U.S. Secretary of Defense.
• Cameron Boyce as Sam Holloman: Rachel's Son
• Julianne Moore as ARIA: The supercomputer whose machinations form the basis for the film's events, and the main antagonist.

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