Eye in the Sky (2015)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
As a drone hovers over a targeted terrorist cell in Nairobi, and civilian collateral damage seems inevitable, the military and their political masters divide variously into hawks and sparrows from the remoteness of their control rooms and computer screens.
Review:
A cannily orchestrated thriller which raises all the burning ethical questions surrounding this new kind of warfare. Rightly, though, it does not take sides, nor does it go for pat outcomes: reality is messy. The acting is fine, but this is a technical tour de force above all, spy cameras placing us at close range with the target and victims, and all conveniently displayed on wall monitors. A British film of no mean ambition, which scores its points more effectively than many a US production, though standards in the genre are high.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
As a drone hovers over a targeted terrorist cell in Nairobi, and civilian collateral damage seems inevitable, the military and their political masters divide variously into hawks and sparrows from the remoteness of their control rooms and computer screens.
Review:
A cannily orchestrated thriller which raises all the burning ethical questions surrounding this new kind of warfare. Rightly, though, it does not take sides, nor does it go for pat outcomes: reality is messy. The acting is fine, but this is a technical tour de force above all, spy cameras placing us at close range with the target and victims, and all conveniently displayed on wall monitors. A British film of no mean ambition, which scores its points more effectively than many a US production, though standards in the genre are high.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
As a drone hovers over a targeted terrorist cell in Nairobi, and civilian collateral damage seems inevitable, the military and their political masters divide variously into hawks and sparrows from the remoteness of their control rooms and computer screens.
Review:
A cannily orchestrated thriller which raises all the burning ethical questions surrounding this new kind of warfare. Rightly, though, it does not take sides, nor does it go for pat outcomes: reality is messy. The acting is fine, but this is a technical tour de force above all, spy cameras placing us at close range with the target and victims, and all conveniently displayed on wall monitors. A British film of no mean ambition, which scores its points more effectively than many a US production, though standards in the genre are high.