A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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.
– Adam Graham,
Detroit News,
25 Mar 2016
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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.
– Brad Wheeler,
Globe and Mail,
25 Mar 2016
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Eye in the Sky is compelling, offering the best elements of a drama and a thriller.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
27 Mar 2016
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Eye in the Sky is disturbing, but it's also balanced and ambivalent about what is right.
– Molly Eichel,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
27 Mar 2016
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It's a lean, Lumet-like thriller that puts the moral calculus of drone warfare in its crosshairs.