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Good Kill Reviews
It came down cheap having "Splash" and "Good kill" repeated all over. It gave a sadistical note to what we call a military operation. The worst was the softness and weaknes of the personnel. These are the thoughphies who deffend our country? if "yes" then OMG! we should run. And the main character....having a carrier crisis that he blews over to become an existential one only because "ha cannot fly". The whole US offence-deffence should be planned around his addiction with danger - a pathetic adrenalin junkie.
'Good Kill' is Andrew Niccol's fascinating vision on a fairly relevant issue stemming from modern warfare. Be prepared for a growingly intense character study.
This film does a realistic, heart-stopping job of illustrating the horrors of drone warfare (I use the word "warfare" advisedly because the drones are 10,000 feet in the air and are unseen by the victims). The story is about one Air Force drone operator (Ethan Hawke) who targets suspected terrorists' homes and compounds in Afghanistan and elsewhere on a computer screen from an air conditioned room outside of Las Vegas. Due to the unavoidable collateral damage of women, children, and other innocents, his conscience is eating away at him. He drinks a lot and struggles to maintain his relationship with his wife and kids. Critics are quibbling about the polemical aspect of the film. I had no problem with it. The movie isn't anti-American; it's anti-war. The best line in the film comes from a disillusioned female drone operator in a meeting with her commander. She simply says, "It never ends." That line carries a ton of weight. War will never end. The human desire to dominate and kill will never end. Films like this are important because we should never forget that harsh reality.
A pretty good film which highlights modern warfare and how it affects those involved. Kept me interested throughout, Ethan does a great job as his stability decreases as hard and harder requests are ask of him.
Major Thomas Egan is a fighter pilot who has been regulated to drone pilot on a secret military base somewher near Vegas. He is desperate to leave and get back to the skies but new protocol means he is left grounded and faced with new recruits who belong more in video game arcades than on the field of battle. Good Kill covers very similar ground to Eye in the Sky but whereas Eye in the Sky was very much focused on the moral implications of killing people with limited intelligence from thousands of miles away, this story also looks at the psychological trauma caused to the pilots who have the lives of strangers, many of whom are innocents and counted as collateral damage. Ethan Hawke was a good lead, playing a character who is struggling to justify the deaths on his conscious, especially when his orders start to come from the CIA rather than his immediate generals. Overall I think Eye in the Sky is the better film regarding tension and moral questions but this was a better character study.
Good Kill is a thought-provoking movie, it plays to all sides of positive and negative of Drone warfare. It is less an entertainer more a chilling and dark take on the reality of modern warfare, it is at times boring with some pacing issues, at times bleak with how threat assessments are made and at times very dark with the way deal with such threats, some of the tactics used leaves you wondering who is the terrorist. The casting is superb so is the performances, Ethan Hawk shines in his portrayal.
You wait so long for a movie about drones and then just like buses, yada yada... you see where I'm going. Short version 'Eye in the Sky' is a million times better than this, This spends a long time trying to make you care about whether Ethan Hawke will ever get to fly jets again (guess what? you don't). It then goes for the 'troubled angsty man lets everyone around him down, becomes an alcoholic but pretty young assistant still falls for him (errr, why?). Ending is laughably bad and equally implausible. Give me Helen Mirren any day over this.
A very good movie about what the military personnel go through when it comes to drone strikes. Tackles info I never knew about what goes on with these strikes and the toll on the military personnel who have to conduct these strikes.
Major Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a decorated Air-force pilot, who after five deployments, has been assigned to a base in Las Vegas, where he conducts drones strikes over Afghanistan. He hates his job and feels like a coward, but things get a whole lot worse, when the CIA commissions his team to start doing questionable jobs. Egan starts to come apart and take it out on his co-workers and family, leading to an uncertain future. IFC films are right at the top of my list right now as the absolute best in independent film. Seldom have they disappointed me, and I wouldn't describe my feelings about Good Kill as disappointed, but rather indifferent. This film, based on a true story, was exceptionally written and features a fantastic director and an amazing cast, but it also moves at a snails pace and is extremely repetitive. It's just drone strike, reaction, intervention, repeat, over and over again, followed by an ending that wasn't all that surprising. Ethan Hawke gives a powerful performance, despite the fact that he lacks the kind of emotion this role sorely needed. I understand that having Egan be this stone cold guy on the outside is a major theme, but it also makes for a lot of seemingly endless conversations and interactions. Good Kill has a lot of elements I look for in a movie, it's well written, has a cast I really enjoy, a director I know very well, still, it's lacking in emotion and levity. The film is monotonous and much longer than it had to be, all in all, not bad, but not great.
Everyone who wants to see a nuanced, thought-provoking anti-movie with great performances from Hawke, Jones Kravitz and Greenwood must see this. It's a morality tale about honor, duty, and the burdens our warriors carry. Without maudlin sentimentality, Hawke heroically shoulders the guilt, stress, and responsibility of killing for our military. We need to honor and support our veterans and actively enlisted men and women for doing the terrible things in our nation's behalf.
Sub-standard and rather dull in comparison to Eye In The Sky which tackled very similar issues.
As a pilot I was quite understanding of the dilemna faced by Hawke in the film. However, the plot is weak and so is the depiction. Not really worth your time.
An Air Force drone pilot (Ethan Hawke) begins to question the ethics of dropping bombs on Afghanistan from the safety of his post in Las Vegas.
A different and unique perspective on modern warfare. The story of drone pilots is a fascinating one. They arguably have one of the most important roles in modern warfare and they do it from a chair thousands of miles from the battlefields. This film shows the mental toll it takes on one pilot in particular. Ethan Hawke gives a solid performance and January Jones and Bruce Greenwood offer some nice support. The film as a whole is rather good but I wasn't thrilled with the ending and it knocked it from a 4 to a 3.5 for me. Still a very good modern war film!
Story/Screenplay: (3.5/5) A drama that follows a self-medicating drone pilot as he becomes increasingly conflicted about the targets he is ordered to strike. Duration/Tempo: (3.5/5) At 1 hour and 42 minutes, it's a shorter than average movie that felt about the same. Easy to watch. Cast & Crew: (4/5) Ethan Hawke and Bruce Greenwood were outstanding. January Jones and Zoe Kravitz nicely balanced a film that would have been testosterone-heavy otherwise. Summary: (3.5/5) The story was good, the cast were very good, and the film didn't feel long. A thumbs up.
excellent movie based on true events of a airman who family and professional lives all come to a unexcepted turns of events when the c.i.a. get involved to whom they should and should not killed regardless if there are women or children involved and how 1 kill took a personal note.
Didn't care for the bad ending. Sorry, but I feel asleep on two occasions during the movie.
Good Kill is incredibly well acted, with career best work from Ethan Hawke, tightly directed, and the subject matter of drone warfare is very timely. The film does get very heavy handed, and pointlessly disturbing at times, like two rape scenes that come out of nowhere. Plus an ending that seems unbelievable, unsatisfying, and ruins most of the tension built up throughout the last 30 minutes.