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Eye in the Sky
After spending a lot of surveillance of the killing zone in Kenya, Colonel Catherine Pawl, who seeks to get rid of terrorism in Kenya, struggles against achieving the mission she prepares for a long ago, as before the attack, a young girl appears in the kill zone, the thing that challenges them, as they have to change their minds.
14 March 1959, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
11 January 1987, Capetown, South Africa
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
28 June 1980, Cape Town, South Africa
November 08, 2016
It's hard to watch the film and not vacillate between wanting them to act, and wanting them to stand down.
March 24, 2016
Watching battle organized at arm's length is a strange and surreal experience, steeped in dread. When Eye in the Sky eventually touches down to put a viewer right into the centre of the action, emotionally speaking, it's a jarring transition.
March 25, 2016
The military and covert war-wagers are getting better and better at killing from farther and farther away, and filmmakers seem to be getting better and better in the drone-warfare genre.
December 12, 2016
Taut and chastening, Eye in The Sky leaves you saddened and shaken.
December 27, 2016
Director Gavin Hood works the tension and the moral uncertainty to good effect but at times the film feels schematic and too much like revision.
December 31, 2016
Hood shows us the war on terror as a literal world war, being strategized everywhere from the dust to the heavens.
March 27, 2016
Eye in the Sky is disturbing, but it's also balanced and ambivalent about what is right.
December 18, 2016
A gripping war thriller.
March 27, 2016
Eye in the Sky is compelling, offering the best elements of a drama and a thriller.
March 25, 2016
Hood keeps the action tense throughout this nail-biter, which unfolds like a taut stage play. It offers no easy answers, only difficult questions about following orders and the cost of war.
April 27, 2016
It's a lean, Lumet-like thriller that puts the moral calculus of drone warfare in its crosshairs.
January 03, 2017
Mirren and Rickman bring real authority to the proceedings, while Jeremy Northam is effective as a conflicted cabinet minister.