Eagle Eye (1 hour, 58 minutes; rated PG-13): I'm a gadget guy. And I'm getting plenty tired of movies making technology out to be the bad guy. First, it was HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey." Then, "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Then, "WarGames." Then, the "Terminator" series. Then, "iRobot."
OK ... we get it. You boot up a self-aware supercomputer, and it wants to assume control of the world. In these movies, mankind always wises up and smashes the computer in the nick of time. Then, after you absorb this righteous message, you're worked up enough to go home and stomp your unsuspecting Roomba to bits.
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