Movie Review: Eye in The Sky (2016)

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Plot Summary - When a group of British and American soldiers find themselves piloting a drone over a terrorist house in a crowded neighbourhood, they find themselves debating the ethics of following through on a drone strike, made tougher by the presence of a little girl near the blast site.

Pros - The casting is really good in the film, with special mention going out to Helen Mirren, who's always awesome, and Aaron Paul, who brings some really good dramatic tension to the mix. The movie is really well shot, and does have it’s kind of intense moments as well.

Cons - The whole movie is a bunch of people in rooms around the world discussing politics and war at each other for 1h 45m. A lot of that is padding as well by means of just drawing things out by insane lengths of time. For as much tension as there is, you can’t help but feel the padded out scenes as well. You can pretty much also tell everything that’s going to happen, while good or bad.

Final Score - 7/10

This was almost a 6, but goddammit it’s well made and well acted enough that I bumped it up one more.

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