I haven’t seen it yet, but the
consensus for Alice Through the Looking
Glass is that it’s messy and lacks substance. Thus, that easily makes Eye in the Sky the superior posthumous film starring the beloved Alan
Rickman (who just died earlier this year).
Eye in the Sky centers on a joint operation by the UK, the US, and Kenya. The mission is to capture high-level members of
the Al-Shabaab terrorist group who will have a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren)
overseas the operation at Northwood Headquarters, England, while reporting to her supervisor, Lieutenant
General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman), who is in Cabinet Offices Briefing Room ‘A’
(COBRA), London, England with British government officials serving as witnesses. A USAF Reaper drone being piloted by 2nd
Lieutenant Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, USA provides
aerial surveillance (the so-called “eye in the sky”). Facial recognition of targets is conducted by
a base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Kenyan Special
Forces are on standby, ready to make the capture, while undercover Kenyan field
agents, including insectothopter handler Jama Farah (Barkhad Abdi), are on site
for ground intel. Unfortunately, complications
escalate the mission objective into one that requires a drone strike and the
participants have to struggle with the political and ethical implications of
its execution.
t took nearly twenty minutes into
the movie before I finally become invested.
But once I got into it, I find it a very fascinating, cerebral watch as
it gives us a look on how real-life drone operations are performed. The direction is solid (a surprise for someone
who directed the awful X-Men Origins:
Wolverine), and the acting is as outstanding as you would expect from the caliber
of such cast. As a result, though a bulk
of the movie is people talking and talking, it stays interesting and suspenseful.
Eye in the Sky is thought-provoking and moving. The debates and discussions that might arise among
its audience could turn out being as intellectual and intense as those from the
film. Not only is this movie informative with
regards to the amazing technologies and intricate practices that are being exercised
by modern warfare and espionage, but it also serves as a great study of the difficult moral
dilemmas that come with them. This gives
the movie another reason why it’s a must watch aside from being Alan Rickman’s
last big screen project.
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