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Eye in the Sky

2015

Gavin Hood

Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi ...

6.6

11,412

Thriller. Drama Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) leads a secret drone mission to capture a terrorist group living in a safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. When Powell learns that the group plans to carry out a suicide attack, her objective is changed to kill the terrorists. Drone pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) targets the safehouse for destruction but reports a nine-year-old girl entering the kill zone. Powell contacts politicians and lawyers to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An effective dramatization of one of modern warfare's most complex quandaries (...) this picture satisfies fully on entertainment terms without cheapening its real-world concerns"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Hood has relied on terse and efficient storytelling to showcase the intricate morality of drone warfare and takes us through one very long and very stressful day in the lives of those tasked with making life or death decisions (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"A rivetingly suspenseful drama that deftly intertwines elements of ticking-clock thriller and tragic farce."	POS
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"A tense, morally complex and extremely prescient thriller. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"['Eye in the Sky'] works equally well as a nail-biting thriller, a dark political satire and a smart examination of the ethics of remote-control war (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"'Eye In The Sky' doesn’t always get it right, and sometimes makes some wrong-footed moves, but it opens a discussion and study of how we engage in acts of war that doesn’t happen often in the mainstream media"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Eye in the Sky is a tick-tock suspense exercise as well as a neat little ethical echo chamber (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Eye in the Sky' asks a provocative question: Does conscience still figure in modern warfare? Rickman, in his last onscreen role, takes on the issue with the brilliance and bracing humanity that marked his career (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A grim, suspenseful farce in which unpredictable human behavior repeatedly threatens an operation of astounding technological sophistication"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"What could have been a disturbing treatise on how wars are fought in the digital age ends up a simplistic commentary on how movies sacrifice pertinent issues for the sake of a laugh (...) Rating: ★ ★ (out of four)"	NEU

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