Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Helen MirrenColonel Katherine Powell
- Aaron PaulSteve Watts
- Alan RickmanLieutenant General Frank Benson
- Barkhad AbdiJama Farah
- Jeremy NorthamBrian Woodale
- Phoebe FoxCarrie Gershon
- Armaan HaggioMusa Mo'Allim
- Aisha TakowAlia Mo'Allim
- Monica DolanAngela Northman
- Richard McCabeGeorge Matherson
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Aaron Paul has key scenes as the drone pilot who actually has to pull the trigger, but it’s the late Alan Rickman, as Mirren’s superior, who steals the film. - 90
Variety
A rivetingly suspenseful drama that deftly intertwines elements of ticking-clock thriller and tragic farce. - 88
New York Post
South African director Gavin Hood (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine’’) pulls off some really tricky tonal shifts. - 80
The Guardian
Eye in the Sky aims to thrill and covertly manages to inform simultaneously. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This picture satisfies fully on entertainment terms without cheapening its real-world concerns. - 75
Slant Magazine
Director Gavin Hood treats the aesthetics of high-tech surveillance as the opaque membrane through which the prosecution of the War on Terror must pass. - 67
The Playlist
While certainly imperfect, there is something to admire about the film’s attempt to present the tangled logistics of a single military operation, where it seems everyone wants success but none of the responsibility of the tough decision making involved. - 60
The Telegraph
Eye in the Sky is a tick-tock suspense exercise as well as a neat little ethical echo chamber, a plea for reason in a world exploding too vigorously to give it the time of day.
