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Take away the political tone of Eagle Eye and you're left with a great thriller.

Sadly, we can't actually do that, leaving us with just an average thriller.

Read our complete Eagle Eye review now!

D.J. Caruso is the director behind the upcoming Shia LaBeouf thriller, Eagle Eye. Below, we've excerpted part of the interview Carusa gave MovieWeb about the movie:

Is the action pretty much unrelenting?
Oh, it does keep going but the editing process was more about letting the movie slow down a bit so we could get with the characters and get with the story because every roller-coaster has those up moments where you're going, 'Oh shit. How high is this thing going?' and then it goes downhill. I will say, and I mean this in a good way, it's a pretty exhausting movie.

It's based on characters and frenetic action and you're trying to figure out what's going on and ultimately you're dealing with a 1984 George Orwell premise of, instead of it being infused in our life, we're inviting it in our life with the technology. It's a popcorn movie, it's a lot of fun, but I'd like to say it's slightly more complicated than your average popcorn movie.

There's a lot of running in Eagle Eye. It opens September 26.

It seems more like a summer tentpole kind of action movie. Were you kind of surprised that it got this release?
You know, I agree because I thought, when we were first making it, that we were going to be a summer action movie then, basically, Paramount started thinking about it and started looking at the marketplace and said, 'You know what? We really feel like September is a good place for it.' Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder dominated the August and everyone at Dreamworks they loved Tropic Thunder and knew it would do well, but I thought Pineapple Express was going to do twice the business that it did.

So, they said 'Let's go in September' and I think it's a real good move now because I think there's going to be a real hunger and a real thirst for that kind of kick-ass action movie again because after what happens in Labor Day and the end of summer, now we're into a lot of arthouse and a lot of Academy-type movies and, hopefully, by the third week of September, people are going to be like, 'All right, great. I want to go see a car blow up.'

The premise of Eagle Eye, which comes out on September 26, is that someone is always watching.

Two strangers are on the run from a mysterious woman that seems to know their every move.

While our staff isn't as mischievous in our methods, we have uncovered a handful of new images from Eagle Eye. Click on them now for larger pics...

Fans piling into IMAX theaters for The Dark Knight will soon be privy to a trailer for Eagle Eye. The to suspense thrilled will receive a simultaneous IMAX DMR release along with its 35mm opening on September 26.

In the movie, Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are two strangers who become the pawns of a mysterious woman. She somehow knows their every move.

The characters realize they're being used to further her diabolical plot and must work together to outwit the woman before she has them killed.

Before Shia LaBeouf stars in Transformers 2, he'll appear at the end of the summer in Eagle Eye.

You can watch the trailer for this thriller now, while checking out the movie poster below:

Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci have collaborated for years with J.J. Abrams, co-writing Mission: Impossible III, Transformers and Abrams' reinvention of Star Trek.

The producers recently spoke with ComingSoon.net about their latest project, the Shia LaBeouf thriller Eagle Eye. Here are excerpts from that interview:

ComingSoon.net: We spoke last year around this time for Transformers. Was Eagle Eye already in the works at that time?
Alex Kurtzman: Actually, it was very much in the works. We were gearing up to... we were in the middle of prep, so we were prepping the movie at this point last year.

CS: This isn't a script you guys wrote originally though, right? It's just something you developed?
Orci: This is the first thing we were lucky enough to get to produce under our K/O banner at DreamWorks, so it's our first sort of movie as producers. Steven just kind of tapped us with, "Okay, producers, produce this thing. Hire writers, develop a script, use the kernel of the idea that I like and if you're lucky, we'll shoot it when it's perfect. (chuckles)

For the second time, we've gotten our hands in a photo from Eagle Eye.

Amidst all the talk of Shia LaBeouf starring in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystall Skull, while also filming Transformers 2, it's easy to forget that he has an interesting thrilled coming out in September. It co-stars Michelle Monaghan.

Shia LaBeouf is garnering more attention than ever for his role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

This should also help his next film, Eagle Eye. Here's the trailer for it:

While Shia LaBeouf is receiving never-ending publicity for a pair of blockbusters he's lined up in the future - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers 2 - it's easy to overlook another highly-anticipated flick from this burgeoning star.

On September 26, he and Michelle Monaghan star in the thriller Eagle Eye. Here are a couple of shots from the movie:

Michael Chiklis, best known for his work on The Shield and in The Fantastic Four movies, is costarring alongside Shia LaBeouf, in Eagle Eye.

The movie comes out this September. Below, Chiklis speaks to MTV about the project:

MTV: Who do you play in the film?
Michael Chiklis: I play the Secretary of Defense, this guy named Jeffrey Callisterâ€" very lofty, [laughs], pretty cool. Obviously, the Donald Rumsfeld of the film, but not modeled on him or by him in any way. He's a very thoughtful man and under some considerable strain throughout the course of the movie - trying his best to manage a ton of different threats and potential threats and figure out what's going on and how Shia's character relates to all of it.

Read the full interview with Chiklis now.