Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Captivating movie !
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Sean Bean plays Neil, a military contractor. Unlike other contractors his contract involves flying drones from back home in the USA, not boots on the ground. He does his job, goes home and lives his life.The legality and morality of drone warfare is a current hot topic, and is the core of this thriller. When Neil is introduced to Imir, with the intention of selling his recently deceased father's boat, all of that comes boiling out in some well played scenes.Unfortunately, those scenes don't overwhelm some of the terribleness earlier on and later in the movie. The director and writer clearly had a message they wanted to say, and they say it with some of extremely heavy handed dialogue. These scenes potentially also lead to some of the bad performances of the actors, as in other, more intimate scenes, the acting can be decent.The movie also throws in a couple like sideplots which don't really go anywhere. The movie wanted to show that everybody has secrets, but it doesn't really contribute to the main storyline, and wasn't needed.The movie isn't horrible, and there were certainly times it was enjoyable, but the reverse is also true where there were points that were awful.
There are lots of wrong detailing in the movie "Drone" 1. The producer of the movie has no idea of the geographical location of the city of Miranshah which is shown in the movie; first the city of Miranshah is located close to the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, secondly it is city surrounded by mountains but in the movie, it is shown close to the sea which is totally wrong. 2. The city in the start is shown Miranshah where as it was actually filmed in India, all the writings on the walls are in Hindi and the vehicles are made by TATA where as in actual in Pakistan TATA manufactured vehicles are nowhere to be found. 3. The area shown is full of dirt where as in actual Pakistan is much cleaner then India and as it was an Indian town so the area shown is too dirty. 4. Moreover, the language used by the characters is Hindi whereas the words in conversation used are Hindi words and not Pakistani which was also wrongfully shown. It is therefore requested that in future if movies on such topic be produced at least the factual errors must be omitted.
"Neil Wistin" (Sean Bean) is a drone pilot who works for a firm that is contracted out to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). One day, while in the process of targeting a deadly Taliban terrorist in Pakistan he accidentally also kills a woman and her teenage daughter in the process. Although he is initially unaware of this, as fate would have it a year later he meets a man named "Imir Shaw" (Patrick Sanbongui) from that exact same place who remembers the incident only too well—and he has much to say to Neil. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie relies heavily upon suspense and it works well for the most part. It also carries an underlying message which is none t00 favorable toward the U.S. policy of utilizing civilian contractors to eliminate terror suspects by using drones and other similar methods at their disposal. To that effect, this approach tended to become a bit too heavy-handed in that regard and along with a couple of nonessential sub-plots caused the film to drag in some places. Likewise, the rather cluttered ending didn't help matters either. In short, this was an okay film for the most part and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.
The only criticism I would give is that it should have had a different title. The title attracts gamers and those too young, to have had enough life experience to have developed the empathy required to understand the film. The feel is that it must be based on actual experiences.It reminds me of the Irish films, from two decades ago, with much better tech. The actors are expressive without a lot of meaningless dialouge required by people who don't interpret facial expressions. This was a beautiful use of the camera, to make you feel what the characters are going through as if looking through their eyes. The film is rich in culture, believable characters, with brilliant lighting and sound that gives just enough anxiety, not to be outputting, but draw you in. This is not a film for idiots.