GOOD KILL Rating: NN
Where to watch: iTunes
In 2010, as the war on terror focuses on drone strikes, a pilot (Ethan Hawke) working remotely in Nevada struggles with PTSD and the inexorable blurring of moral lines.
Good Kill starts out great and ends up tedious, as writer/director/producer Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord Of War) mistakes repetition for emphasis and winds up circling his central point – that expediency and political cynicism will always force good people to do bad things – for far too long.
Hawke gives a terrific performance as the disintegrating hero, with a pained bearing that suggests a younger Nick Nolte, and Bruce Greenwood is perfectly cast as his weary commanding officer, but they can’t quite rise above the movie’s mission statement.
See our Q&A with Ethan Hawke and Andrew Niccol here.
