Eagle Eye

I know this came out waaay back, but I never got the chance to catch it in the cinemas. Due to this, I recently contributed RM8 to the piracy industry and obtained a good-quality DVD of Eagle Eye.

If you like I, Robot, Disturbia or just plain Shia Labeouf, you would enjoy watching Eagle Eye. Shia Labeouf and Michelle Monaghan played their roles quite well, in my opinion. I've always been a fan of Shia since Transformers and Disturbia and of Michelle in Mission Impossible 3.

Good point about the movie was that it was fast-paced action and would be good to watch it on a big-screen with a surround sound system (otherwise there's no point).

Bad points: Billy Bob Thornton's dialogue was pretty dull, like his presence did not have any emphasis in the movie and the storyline was QUITE predictable. Coming from watching movies which incorporate AI such as, Stealth, I, Robot, and Minority Report, it's hard not being able to predict the ending, which kinda threw the whole suprise element out of the window.

Then again, for a good thriller to keep you going when you're at home bored, Eagle Eye would do the trick.

Driving License Expired!

I just realized that my license expired about a month ago (not that I've ever been stopped at a road block, but still), which made me think back to an incident that happened 2 years ago.

I was on Fereral Highway one morning (I drive a Kelisa), stuck in a bumper-to-bumper jam. I tend to get bored easily with nothing to look at except the faces of drowsy, frustrated people, staring back at me from their cars. So, I started hunting around my car for this compilation CD that I burned sometime back. At the same time, the car (Kancil) in front of me started moving and with my eyes off the road, I lifted my foot off the brake. What I didn't realize was that he had braked again and next thing I knew, I had bumped into his car.

Good thing for me, there was hardly any damage to his car (phew!) but there was a smudge on my bumper *rolls eyes*. Now the bad thing is, some part fell out from underneath his car. Till today, I've no idea what it was. And neither did he.

But he was quite nice to me and said that there was no damage to his car and the part that fell out didn't seem important *disbelief* so he was willing to let this go. So I said OK and that was that. For some reason, when I got to the office that morning, I checked my license and found that it had expired 3 months ago!!

So I took time off work and went to JPJ to get it renewed. And when it came to my turn, guess what happened next?

The guy at the counter was the same guy that I hit earlier that morning!! (sigh...) Apparently, he works at JPJ. But he renewed my licensed without saying anything and I asked how was his car with the part that fell out. And he assured me that his mechanic said everything was OK with his car and the part was probably lying on the road before the accident.

Moral of the story: NEVER take your eyes off the road! :)