Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

GazerRise Fantastic!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Lele This movie looks like a sci fi movie, but it isn't. It looks like a Bourne franchise movie, but it is not that, either. This movie is what the war looks like today. No more US soldiers back in coffins covered by Star'n'stripes flag, they say. OK, folks, I have bad news. Drones can be driven by your enemies, too. Not only the Good Guys from Pentagon and CIA have drones, but Russian and Chinese, too. And these weapons can be bought and sold, just like nuclear weapons. War leads nowhere. It is just a lot of money in weapon Corporations pockets, in the US, just like here in Italy and everywhere. War to terrorism leads nations like US and Israel to be terrorist themselves. This is history not my opinion.This movie tries to show how human can be a drone based war. Maybe even worse PTSD effects. Alcoholic and psychotic disorders instead of physical injures. We can see Major Tom going down a spiral of madness through alcohol, impotence, seclusion and anger which raises its acme when he shoots the 7,000 miles away raper, like an almighty vigilante.It is not strange that this movie got mild average ratings (as Jarhead (2005)) Most people simply don't get it. They probably think like M.I.C. Joseph Zimmer (the one who talked about how green is Virginia to new women soldiers) they kill us, we kill them. No time for stopping and reflecting about military mistakes. It remember an interview a few decades ago, in which Buzz Aldrin (1930), the astronaut who was with Armstrong first mission on the Moon, said he wanted to nuke terrorists. This explains a lot about Trump victory and making US great again!

Andrew Wade I had very low expectations of this film, expecting a sanitized Hollywood "product" with a toothy pilot bravely quitting his job on the one freak occasion that he's ordered to do something morally questionable.It wasn't like that at all. In fact, he's ordered to do something morally questionable almost on a daily basis. And he does it. Every time. And then he goes home to his wife. Day after day after day. The film bears a strong resemblance to newspaper articles I've read about drone pilots - who reportedly, do indeed go off the rails due to the corrosive nature of the work, ie, either killing from a safe distance or watching powerlessly as allied troops are attacked themselves (by IEDs - the closest thing the enemy has to drones).This film does a great job of depicting the disintegration of Ethan Hawkes' mind as he's continually ordered to commit what are, by any definition of the word, war crimes. Even if you still agree with the war, by the end of the film you'll be thinking "This is not a job for a normal human being. This is a job for psychopaths or possibly artificial intelligences".

markusdax Yet another "the US is the bad guy" film, that in its over simplified world view that Hollywood continues to force feed the public. The dialog between Military rank and file is ridiculous in its insubordination. Conversations replace ORDERS, and the Film would have you believe it's normal to have lengthy discussions via speakerphone between the NAMELESS CIA operator and the men and women taking orders MID-STRIKE. MIGRANE inducing and laughable if it were not so believable by some to be the way real War is conducted.It's a shame, there is a decent movie in there some where...but fear of Patriotism seems to do nothing but create another misleading propaganda piece about the evil American Military.This movie is offensively unrealistic.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of a drone pilot in the air force, who is tasked to kill terrorists in Afghanistan. As the commands get more dubious, he gets into a battle with his own morality.An interesting thing about "Good Kill" is the widespread use of static cameras. Even when two people are talking to each other, the camera do not cut from one person to another, instead the camera stays at a constant position with both people in view. It is unusual to see this in a big film.As for the story, it is a gripping story about whether it is right or wrong to kill someone thousands of miles away. There is the societal level debate, and a personal level debate in the film. The battle in his inner self is competing to be more destructive than the battle far away. It is a thought provoking story.