Good Kill

A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.

Director:

Andrew Niccol

Writer:

Andrew Niccol

 

 

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Stars:

January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Ethan Hawke | See full cast and crew » 
 

 Storyline

 A Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his wife and kids for the other 12. But the pilot is starting to question the mission. Is he creating more terrorists than he's killing? Is he fighting a war without end.

 

User Reviews

 The real shame with Good Kill is it's blatant lifting of plot, character, and location from an earlier, much less known and much lesser paid playwright, George Brant. Brant's play, "Grounded" (published in 2012) made it's first appearance on the stage in 2013 and features a strong central female character as the fighter pilot who becomes "grounded" after the introduction of drone bombers to the war effort. It's a shame that such a ground-breaking work will now be reduced to just another action/war movie with the same old tropes of any other mainstream cinema experience. At least give credit to the author!!