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Sometimes movie producers actually produce good message movies.

Eye In The Sky (2015)

could be one of them but it is marred with too much gab and not enough action.

I do not mean action as in suspense and "will the bomb go off" and so on. I mean action in the sense that something is wrong, everyone talks about it, and then do nothing.

This is, of course, how things work but it doesn't always make for a good movie.

I was hoping for more.

There are some very good actors and they do act. Brits, they give it their best. Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, some excellent African actors who I am ashamed, sort of, to not remember or know. It is not that the all look alike, an old joke which isn't. It is that I am not regularly exposed to the lot of them and always they are in hard roles to identify with.

Well, it is a weak excuse,is it not? I will try to do better..

In any case, here, we have a satellite that has found a target, a bunch of brown men putting together suicide jackets in a homey community. Human shielding.

Once they are actually seen, the high tech stuff is wonderful if somewhat unbelievable, the decision to strike or not is up to a gaggle of bureaucrats. It is here that the film breaks down. There is nothing exciting or even justifiable about bureaucratic decision making.

I was with this movie all the way. Hard as it might be to see Helen Mirren as a hawkish military officer, she does break the old glass ceiling here. Up to now only men can be reprehensibly cold to all but the military mission.

A 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films