Eye in the sky
Cast : Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul
Rated : 6.5/10
If one were to tell you that a slowpaced movie can be near perfect, then it would be difficult to imagine this possibility. But Eye In The Sky is precisely this and much more. The movie is intelligent and thought-provoking. It is something that very few movies are able to do. However Hollywood manages to get right when it gets things in place.
The film creates at atmosphere of ethics in a world where terrorism and violence has become a part and parcel of people’s lives that of the common man hile the people who can do something about it are busy ‘referring up’ in their bid to be politically correct.
It evokes consciousness at every step but at the same time makes you question whether a soldier who is fighting a war should have one, when the enemy is extremely dangerous capable of killing innocents with no conscience or regrets, killing them in his quest to make a point.
Director Gavin Hood has managed to get the aesthetics in place in a film that is primarily about how different humans react in the same situation here a military operation through the eye of a drone. If one is looking for any subtlety then there is none. This is because there is plenty of morality involved which plays out with the cold-blooded Colonel played absolutely brilliant by Helen Mirren. She is fierce and willing to bend quite a few rules. It is, of course, strange to see Alan Rickman alive – moving and talking and doing mundane tasks like having a problem in buying a doll.
It is a movie that tells you the outcome of action and inaction and keeps the viewer on tenterhooks till the very end or it may not.
It is a movie not be missed even with WT20 going on.