Very disappointing...

Really Surprised!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Languid expose of US drone warfare from the operators' perspective. Good intentions but lacks real tension, becomes repetitive. For me, it became too involved with effects on Major Egan's personal relationship. "Drones" is a better treatment of the same subject. Even though that film may lack some of the background (political) detail given here it is more gripping. And the Afghani targets become more real than here where they remain figures on a screen.

Ethan Hawk dwells in this movie right away. He is such an amazing actor, from my point of view, showing it here once again. He bleeds with emotions in each scene possible. The movie shows the ethics of war, the psychologial terror this people go through, while taking orders from the upper "floor". It shows the reality and the real number of times, people doubt and rethink their profession of killing others, taking innocents along the road. Again, as I feel about a lot of other movies, I think that the pace is a bit slow, but the point of the movie actually doesn't ask for a pacy movie at all, so I might be wrong.

A daring movie about a painful subject.I'm so glad that from time to time there's a movie with a good, honest and true story and with good performers. True and honest, no matter how it will make you look or feel. I could really feel the characters, especially Ethan Hawke with his master performance!Honest story and honest acting.

What I thought was interesting is the insight the movie offers on the war through drones: I think this is the first time a war movie depicts this way of fighting a war, something looking more like a video game than the dirty reality of ground-fight. So I thought the movie was very insightful, providing a clear point of view on both the ethics of such a war and the personal impact on individuals. What the film does is to take you into the virtual reality of a war where who pulls the trigger is in a bunker in Vegas and the bullet hit someone in Afghanistan; it is a virtual reality where the boundary between what is war and what is a sheer crime becomes more and more blurred, where war on terror gives the cover to commit illegal actions. At the same time, I felt the movie did not go beyond scratching the surface of the issue, it got kind of repetitive and it tried to solve the tension built throughout the whole story with a crappy happy end...