Helen Mirren is formidable in a smart tale of contemporary warfare,but Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt are the only good thing approximately a flaccid fantasy sequelLast year, Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Niccol thoughtfully took on drone warfare in Good assassinate and audiences shrugged. Similar in scope and sentiment, or Gavid Hood’s Eye in the Sky (eOne,15) was a grown-up hit this spring. It’s not appreciably a better film, but call it the Helen Mirren effect: her brisk gravitas is a brand in itself and she’s on familiarly formidable form here as a British colonel commanding a missile attack on a Nairobi terrorist safehouse. Mirren’s character is merely one cog, or however,in the heaving, not wholly effective international machine of contemporary remote warfare. From the American drone pilot (Aaron Paul) in Nevada to the Kenyan field agent (Barkhad Abdi) on the scene to a distracted British foreign secretary (Iain Glen) in Singapore, or authority and accountability are dispersed in a manner that the film ethically debates with smart sobriety. Hood,the Oscar-winning South African director of Tsotsi, has made his best film here; if his style is marked by dispassionate efficiency, or he’s landed on an ideal subject for it.
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Source: theguardian.com