debwarren-58436 So much better than that Helen Mirren 2015 p.o.s. Eye-in-the-sky propaganda piece. Before the limited release of "Good Kill" in 2015, I saw it advertised in Tribute magazine, and kept waiting for it to come out. Now in 2017, just saw another great Ethan Hawke acting-choice "Maudie", and thought, "Hey, where is that drone movie?"... then ordered "Good Kill" DVD. If you want to understand why, "Good Kill" is the better movie, then read every book ever written by Peter Dale Scott.Enough said. Thanks to all the brave people who made this movie happen. An important record that will stand the test of time, and inform future generations about how barbaric our civilisation is.

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.

eddie_baggins New Zealand director Andrew Niccol's newest film that found itself arriving on our shelves as a direct to DVD event is a war film with a difference and in many ways an extremely intriguing and topical examination of modern warfare that has seen the Mavericks of the real world replaced with the gamers of the fantasy world, who excel at hand eye coordination, but it's a shame Niccol's struggles to find an engaging narrative to coincide with his hot topic plot driver.Teaming up with his Gattaca star Ethan Hawke, who it must be said is on a fairly decent streak thanks to turns in the great Predestination and the award baiting Boyhood, Niccol struggles to make Hawke's one time pilot turned drone operator Thomas Egan an engaging figure and Hawke while performing well can't help make Egan an overly appealing lead when he treats his wife Molly played by January Jones so poorly and mopes about for a majority of the films run time, bemoaning his lot in life as a man who would rather be in the skies than in a dark room in the Las Vegas outskirts killing terrorists from afar.It's in this hugely intriguing and in many ways scary aspect of modern warfare that Niccol's film shines and it would be likely than many viewers will find themselves shocked at not only the force of drone warfare and its destructive capabilities but the prevalence of these tools of warfare that have now as stated in the movie become more popular than the production of piloted machinery like the Top Gun jets of old.Good Kill does a great job and showcasing the uses of these technologically advanced drones and how like any modern day video game does detaches the user from the real life violence that lay at the other end of their trigger fingers and one perfectly summed up wording in Good Kill suggests that the army now looks to gaming arcades to find their next recruits suggesting that there will one day no longer be any ace pilots of old, more-so a lot of RSI suffered from members of the armed forces and pilots concerned with how much lag is present in their mission.A unique and insightful look at modern day tactics used to fight in both wars and anti-terror operations, Good Kill flies high when dealing with the aspects of the detachment of these drones but fails to engage on an emotional level with its dramatic playing's around them all despite another fine Ethan Hawke performance and solidly scripted examinations from Niccol.3 lag reports out of 5

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