Released this week across the pond are Shia Labeouf starring conspiracy thriller Eagle Eye; Spike Lee war movie Miracle at St Anna; and the reteaming of Richard Gere and Diane Lane for the first time since Unfaithful, in Nights in Rodanthe. None of the above have gone down particularly well with the American scribes, with all three pulling in equal amounts of disdain and banality. Of Eagle Eye, legendary scribe Roger Ebert said: "the word 'preposterous' is too moderate to describe Eagle Eye. This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline." That's gonna leave a mark. Spike Lee is coming off the biggest hit of his career with The Inside Man, and had something important to say about the plight of African American's in World War II; but the critics weren’t buying it. USA Today though Miracle at St Anna was "unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing". Nights in Rodanthe hardly fared better, The Arizona Republic said: There's nothing like a good tearjerker. Unfortunately, Nights in Rodanthe isn't a good tearjerker, although the characters on-screen shed tears and the movie is pretty jerky. All of the above films did manage to score some positive reviews, but the majority of them were negative, which is why I chose to highlight ones that saw a collective "meh" from critics.
