the audience applauded

Simply Perfect

Good movie but grossly overrated

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

GOOD KILL is a worthy ethical drama masquerading as a military thriller. Ethan Hawke plays a drone operator who spends his days blowing up targets at the behest of the US government, but eventually the stress of the job takes its toll and he begins to crack. I found this long-winded story to be pretty depressing, if I'm honest; the subject matter is an interesting one but not so here. I found the whole thing, morals and all, done much better in EYE IN THE SKY. Hawke downplays it on autopilot, and only Zoe Kravitz shines as his friendly colleague. The marriage drama stuff is particularly gruelling and uninteresting. The worst thing about this? It's a film about ideas, methods, and feelings, but they forgot to put the humanity in.

Good Kill, 2014 *Spoiler/plot- A story about a US air force officer working the in the drone program. He works in an airbase outside Las Vegas, Nevada and executes his countries foreign power all over the world by remote control technology.*Special Stars- Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, Jake Abel, Dylan Kenn.*Theme- Ethics can and do effect even remote control war.*Trivia/location/goofs- Nelis air force base outside Las Vegas, Nevada.*Emotion- A very interesting and thought provoking film theme that is explored in this plot for audiences to think about. Very watchable due to 'in depth' character development of the plot's roles. Something to see, enjoy and think about for the audience. *Based On- Today air force drone technology used by the president and other Govt bureaus.

This film tells the story of a drone pilot in the air force, who is tasked to kill terrorists in Afghanistan. As the commands get more dubious, he gets into a battle with his own morality.An interesting thing about "Good Kill" is the widespread use of static cameras. Even when two people are talking to each other, the camera do not cut from one person to another, instead the camera stays at a constant position with both people in view. It is unusual to see this in a big film.As for the story, it is a gripping story about whether it is right or wrong to kill someone thousands of miles away. There is the societal level debate, and a personal level debate in the film. The battle in his inner self is competing to be more destructive than the battle far away. It is a thought provoking story.

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