Good Kill (2015)
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.
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To me, this movie is perfection.
As Good As It Gets
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
It too true, too realistic, too brutally honest, to Americans. Your brain will hurt, your American proud will be hurt. So no wonder it's only made some 300K$ at box office. LOL. As one of the solider said, we can kill faster than they make it, guess lots Americans think the same...well hope U.S.A understands, he is talking about genocide an entire race, well, which indeed can be an outcome of the vicious circle.
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.
Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a F-16 pilot married to Molly (January Jones) with two kids. He is currently flying drones and going home to his family. He would like to go back to flying F-16s but the Air Force is changing. He is disconnected from his wife. His commander Lt. Colonel Jack Johns (Bruce Greenwood) bemoans the lost of real flying and the recruiting of video game playing kids. They are put under the command of a CIA controller only as a voice over the phone. New airman Vera Suarez (Zoë Kravitz) starts questioning the ethics of the missions. The constant moral ambiguity drives Thomas into a decline.This is a movie about one moral ambiguity of war. It's not that subtle. Ethan Hawke delivers a solid performance. At the end of the day, he's killing people whether he's flying a drone or flying a fighter jet. The movie advocates against something that may not be agreeable to all audiences. It's not a great enough film to transcend that divide.
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