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Gavin Hood showed a talent for handling complex issues with brilliant skill in “Tsotsie,” a film about a small-time thug that was both a thriller and a balanced exploration of the intersection of crime, poverty and AIDS in South Africa’s slums. Now the South African director brings that knack for taut thrillers with nuance, balance and humanity to the morally murky subject of drone warfare, in Eye In The Sky.
Hood takes a neutral tone in this gripping thriller, where a joint British and American mission to capture a British national, who has become an Islamic terrorist leader in Kenyan, is complicated when their remote surveillance, the “eye in the sky,” reveals a suicide bomber mission in progress. The unexpected discovery seems to change the mission from capture to kill, but that decision is debated between politicians, diplomats, military leaders across international lines, in a...
Gavin Hood showed a talent for handling complex issues with brilliant skill in “Tsotsie,” a film about a small-time thug that was both a thriller and a balanced exploration of the intersection of crime, poverty and AIDS in South Africa’s slums. Now the South African director brings that knack for taut thrillers with nuance, balance and humanity to the morally murky subject of drone warfare, in Eye In The Sky.
Hood takes a neutral tone in this gripping thriller, where a joint British and American mission to capture a British national, who has become an Islamic terrorist leader in Kenyan, is complicated when their remote surveillance, the “eye in the sky,” reveals a suicide bomber mission in progress. The unexpected discovery seems to change the mission from capture to kill, but that decision is debated between politicians, diplomats, military leaders across international lines, in a...
- 3/18/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In her nearly 50-year film career Helen Mirren has portrayed an assortment of formidable female characters — queens, sorcerers, assassins and even a brothel owner. When we think of Mirren we think of a woman with confidence; and it’s that steely reserve that powers her latest role as Colonel Katherine Powell in director Gavin Hood’s superb military thriller Eye in the Sky.
Powell and her team are ensconced inside a bunker in London, England, where they’re using aerial surveillance to track a British-born female terrorist who’s arrived in Kenya. Their mission is to capture her, but that suddenly changes when they see she and her accomplices are preparing to carry out a suicide attack.
Powell wants to send a drone — piloted by an American officer (Aaron Paul) situated outside Las Vegas — to bomb the terrorists in their safe house, but she needs permission from her superior commander...
Powell and her team are ensconced inside a bunker in London, England, where they’re using aerial surveillance to track a British-born female terrorist who’s arrived in Kenya. Their mission is to capture her, but that suddenly changes when they see she and her accomplices are preparing to carry out a suicide attack.
Powell wants to send a drone — piloted by an American officer (Aaron Paul) situated outside Las Vegas — to bomb the terrorists in their safe house, but she needs permission from her superior commander...
- 3/18/2016
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
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