Double Trouble

Last night, I went to the movie theater and saw "Eagle Eye" staring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan and Billy Bob Thornton. "If you want to live you will obey" is the wicked slogan and creation of director D.J. Caruso.

This fast-paced, confusing mystery was entertaining and worth the student-rate ticket price.

I don't think this is a big part of the movie, so I will elaborate a little bit about something that pertains to me in the movie. This would be about addressing the common questions asked about twins. Yes I have an identical twin brother; I am older by seven minutes and our names are not "Pete and Repete."

In the movie, several times, they bring up the connection between Shia and his brother. I don't want to make a public statement for all male twins, but my brother and I have never been that close. Partly because while growing up, we were forced to do everything the same. Our parents got us the same clothes in different colors, we got the same haircuts until we were eleven or twelve and had to be in the same classes until we got into middle school.

All of that made us grow apart. The close proximity didn't make us grow into a close knit bunch, instead we became the two most competitive people anyone knew. If it could be a competition, it usually ended up that way and that is the opposite bond that is portrayed between Shia and his brother in the movie.

My twin and I used to joke that a close relationship between twins was always reserved to female twins. The ones you hear about who share closets and have "twice the number of outfits." Yeah, we aren't like that. We don't end each other's sentences and we never went to each other's classes to take each others tests.

Neither did we try to fool people. We might have been the least fun group of twins when it comes to using our unique looks to fool people.

So this movie portrays twins as well as the "Parent Trap" made it believable that there were two Lindsay Lohans.

I think I would have liked this movie more, if they didn't butcher the role of the twin brother in the movie. Although, while watching the "flashback" videos in the movie, I felt somewhat sympathetic for LaBeouf's character who was good at things, just overshadowed by the success of his brother. I was that type, where I saw us being similar and chose to be the opposite to become an individual.

Other than my particular temperament toward the twin aspect of the movie, I thought it was relatively interesting. The idea that "Big Brother" is looming over you and can use your technology to hear what you say and see what you do at all time was creative.

Some scenes were predictable and because of that became funny. Occasionally making me laugh in a quiet, intimate moment. I would give this movie a shot while it is still in theaters. Also because there is nothing else good out right now.