2008
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob thornton, Michael Chiklis, William Sadler, Anthony Mackie
Director: D.J. Caruso
Runtime: 118 Minutes
Distributor: Dreamworks
Rating: PG-13

Quietly and without fuss Shia LaBeouf is fast on the ascendancy to mega-stardom and could just be the new Teflon Don of Tinseltown in that nothing bad seems to stick. High on a crest of anticipation over Transformers 2, he has already achieved the impossible in bringing respectability to the PG-13 thriller with the sleeper hit Disturbia (over which exec producer Steven Spielberg now finds himself embroiled in a copyright suit). He managed to completely avoid all the finger-pointing fallout from Indiana Jones and the Fridge Nuking Mess. He also seems to be able to leap tall DUI charges in a single bound.

Now here he is at the center of this hi-tech, hi-concept, post 9/11 tale of paranoia that’s blistering pace and excitement level are only exceeded by its ability to confound and ignore all semblance of logic. Indeed its very release suggests a mish-mash of different ideas and muddled priorities that make it hard to categorize – too serious and somber in theme to be a summer event movie and too ridiculous in plot and execution to be part of the Oscar-baiting fall schedule.

Click here to read the full review at WiFly Radio.

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