Watching from above. Body of Lies (pictured above) and Eagle Eye deal with both the power and limitations of US technology (Warner Brothers)
I'm not sure what it says about the state of Hollywood movies - or the taste of audiences -- when a talking Chihuahua film holds the top spot for two weeks in a row, beating out even Ridley Scott's new action thriller. So while alpha males Leo and Russell may command multi-million dollar salaries, they took a back seat to the bitch in Beverly Hills Chihuahua . Body of Lies (opened October 10 throughout San Diego) serves up Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA operative working on the ground in the Middle East and Russell Crowe as his stateside boss who watches from above with spy satellites, moving people around like chess pieces. The film arrives on the heels of the more mindless pseudo spy flick Eagle Eye (opened October 3 throughout San Diego). But both films reveal a U.S. government with a ton of technology at its fingertips and an apparent inability to put it to good use.
