Eye In the Sky

That fact they expect The Warfighters to win having their hands cuffed is disgusting. The Geneva Convention is more than enough, but adding more Rules of Engagement on top leads to more troops needlessly killed in action

If the public rates a movie below 5 stars and Rotten Tomatoes has it at 95% (like where this movie is at) - stay away!!! If both groups rate the move high - you know it's great. If Rotten Tomatoes hates something the public likes - you know you're getting a movie where suspending your disbelief is important. As fo this one... I'm staying away.

Before saying anything else, Eastleigh is not Somalia. It is not a place where bad guys walk around with AK47ss or drive vehicles mounted with machine guns. While there have been border raids in the far north and a numbe of terrorist acts, Kenya is very much in charge of its streets. As for this film, it provides a look at the fight against terrorism, showing the checks and balances, as well as the human factor for those involved, including that of the human collateral damage. I lived in east Africa as a school teacher for five years. Having been in both US embassies in Nairobi and Dar ed Salaam, as well as frequented the shopping center referred to in the film, plus having spent time in Lamu – all four of which were later scenes of terrorist actions, as well as having grown up in a USAF / SAC family, I can appreciate the impact from every perspective (including starting out in Dar, scrambling for survival under extreme conditions of poverty, cooking peanuts for a living and eating worm-ridden beans every day). I consider this to be a very brave film, providing multiple perspectives and leaving the audience to take from it what they will. I do wish that, from the African perspective, there had been a Kenyan at the table in London, but that would not have been realistic, so the representatives of Kenyan military and agents on the ground must suffice. This is a story that needed to be told and in this case it was told extremely well. It is a pity that terrorists never seem to learn that their methods never achieve any lasting positive results.

Great cast, great acting, great story.

Literally only giving this 2 stars bc of Alan Rickman

I LOVED THIS MOVIE.

Anyone who gives this a one-star review because of some minor inaccuracies or because they were once in the US military and they hate liberals is an idiot. Stick to military work and leave movie criticism to intelligent people who can be objective. This is a fictional entertainment, akin to Fail Safe and is extremely compelling, well acted and well paced. If you like thrillers, you will be on the edge of your seat. If you are a drone pilot really very few of us care if this movie is like your life or not...

This movie is a prime example of why you should not trust the rating. A 95%? Really? Something is terribly wrong here. First of all, although Helen Mirren played the least politically correct character, I am at lost why would such an accomplished actress signed up for such a politically correct garbage. As to Aaron Paul, the alleged drone operator ... his nonstop tearing up, which was supposedly to show the sensitive side of a drone operator was just too much to handle. Clearly, it was meant to suggest how much drone operators hate releasing the hellfire missiles because there might be a collateral, in this case a little Kenyan girl. The main plot of the film revolves around a dilemma of whether to release the missile when a little Kenyan girl is in the drone's kill zone. The two options are: yes, release the Hellfire, kill all the jihadist who are about to go on a suicide mission that will definitely kill more people (perhaps many little Kenyan girls) but she might die to ... or no, don't release, spare the little cue innocent girl but watch live stream carnage (courtesy of the drone's HD camera) as the group slaughters tens of innocent people in the next few minutes. While killing innocent little girl is not what we want to do ... sorry, war is an ugly thing and it's not fair. I too, watched once a live stream of killing people ... on September 11 ... there were no terrorists targeted, they were all innocent. All that being said, don't look for my sympathy when dealing with terrorists; I have none. The film is an awful portrait of what was wrong with our country for the last 8 years: Increasing political correctness that achieved nothing. If I could vote a half star, I would.

Wishing there were ZERO stars. Absolutely one of the most false premises in a war movie to date. There is no debate when collateral damage involves children. Simple Hollywood fantasy. They obviously either didn't have a military advisor or had a crappy advisor who never saw the processes involved in drone strikes. Really disappointed in Helen Mirren, who I think is a great actress. Her worst movie ever. If you want to debate collateral damage in war, this is a really bad way to do it. How about a film about firebombing German cities in WWII?? There was no discussion about collateral damage back then, only about winning at any cost. Today, Eisenhower would be a war criminal.

Fantastic