Good Kill Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 9868

Average Rating: 2.7/4

# of Ratings: 6

Theatrical Release Date: 04/30/2014

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 09/01/2015

Language: English

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Andrew Niccol

Actors: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Jake Abel, Bruce Greenwood, Alma Sisneros

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Rating of
3/4

Unknown - wrote on 09/20/2015

'Good Kill' is a conflicted character piece involving a timely issue. The film does an excellent job at accurately showing the process of drone warfare from the pilot seat. The images on the monitors all look convincingly real. This eases us into the inner turmoil felt by our main character. We feel exactly as he does when faced with the morally askew repercussions of his ordered actions. All of the soldier characters have their own personal views that are opposite each other. Yet, none of them are ever completely concrete in their stance. It shows just how unnecessarily confusing this whole approach to warfare is. There's no clear cut right or wrong answer. But no matter what, there will always be terrible consequences.

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Rating of
1/4

Boring and Dissapointing

Randy - wrote on 04/06/2015

I was interested in Good Kill as soon as I saw the trailer. The story was certainly one that brought me in. I was also eager to see Ethan Hawke's next project after Boyhood, which was the first movie I saw him in that I actually enjoyed his performance. Good Kill does have some veteran actors involved with Hawke, Bruce Greenwood and January Jones, who had the best performance in the film by far. Good Kill brings a relatively unknown component of the war on terrorism (it is said to be a true story but I'm not sure if I believe it) to light. Hawke gets caught in the middle of a huge ethical dilemma and begins to suffer from post traumatic stress. Good Kill was not exciting enough to keep my attention so I needed a big performance from Ethan Hawke and sadly I did not get it. I would not …

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