Good Kill

2015
6.4| 1h44m| R| en
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In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.

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ada the leading man is my tpye
Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
bettycjung 6/30/18. Way too slow in its brooding approach to the moral consequences of drone warfare. It looks like they reused the explosion footage 10x. No kidding. Talking about low budget. This movie is almost the same as "Eye in the Sky" with Helen Mirren, which was much better in generating suspense and questions about why we should ever resort to drone warfare. Why not just have video wargames replace real warfare why you're at it.
stronald1 A daring movie about a painful subject.I'm so glad that from time to time there's a movie with a good, honest and true story and with good performers. True and honest, no matter how it will make you look or feel. I could really feel the characters, especially Ethan Hawke with his master performance!Honest story and honest acting.
igor I'm not necessarily pro drone warfare, but the movie was so obviously choosing the side of anti-drone warfare (and anti war in general) that I felt like I was watching a propaganda movie. Some examples: -the permanently frowning Ethan Hawke portrayed as an honorable man suffering from the injustice of drone warfare, backed up by the mandatory ethnical minority female co pilot. Hawke's pro-drone warfare colleagues that were portrayed as rednecks the cliché "evil" CIAcommanders off course asking Ethan to coldheartedly do immoral things.the continuous emphasis on the killing of innocent civiliansAll in all the subject matter has all the elements for a good movie, too bad the makers were intellectually lazy, but I guess this movie will be a hit with those already against drone warfare.
speculoluceps In this review I will try to explain why I left a 3 star rating & I am pretty sure many will disagree with me because the movie scored 9/10 on many categories. However, sometimes small flaws discredit the whole movie & I am not talking about the typical mistakes we always find on many movies. I give the producer 9/10, director 9/10, lead 9/10, casting 8/10 & a 1/10 for screenplay. The talented writer of this movie fell for the classic self delusion many great directors/writers fall for. They start their careers with the 3 great movies they always thought off & easily write it down & direct it. In this case Gattaca, Truman Show & Lord of War all three were masterpieces written by Andrew Niccol. All shared a hyper sensationalist touch & an eye into a world we did know, usually a plot we can't examine so the mistakes we saw there didn't ruin the movie & the writer happened to have more information about the subject in matter. Forward a decade into Good Kill, you open up to a perfect movie, a very interesting topic, great casting & perfect picture, but the big flaw becomes apparent as we go throw the movie you feel that the writer has no clue about Vegas or the USAF in many spoilers that you have to watch. The fulcrum of the movie is our grounded pilot who wants to get back into his F-16, now part of a 4 man (1 lady & 3 men) team sending drones after terrorists. Each his own individual perspective of their part in this war. The ex pilot share a superficial dislike of the drone war, as you will find out for different reasons & you should know the rest. As our USAF F16 grounded pilot tells us how he misses landing on Aircraft carriers, I lost interests & started noticing that the script must have been written to meet some deadline...another once great master past his prime