Eye in the Sky's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
Mirren, as ever, is both polite and brusque, her petite va-va-voomness never undermining her credibility as a tough military top-ranker. And Rickman ? oh, that dryly sarcastic voice.
Entertainment Weekly
Aaron Paul has key scenes as the drone pilot who actually has to pull the trigger, but it?s the late Alan Rickman, as Mirren?s superior, who steals the film.
Variety
A rivetingly suspenseful drama that deftly intertwines elements of ticking-clock thriller and tragic farce.
New York Times
A grim, suspenseful farce in which unpredictable human behavior repeatedly threatens an operation of astounding technological sophistication.
New York Post
El director sudafricano Gavin Hood se quita algunos cambios tonales muy difíciles. Está instigada por un elenco fantástico, incluyendo Barkhad Abdi como un experto en vigilancia que intenta salvar a la chica y Rickman en su última aparición en pantalla, una de sus mejores.
Cinemanía
The best film ever on modern warfare with drones. A very tense thriller that gets raise the moral debate of this new form of terror from different points of view.
The Hollywood Reporter
This picture satisfies fully on entertainment terms without cheapening its real-world concerns.
Empire
It's a tight thriller played out smoothly but tying the viewer in moral knots. A film to think about for days, with little hope of finding a comfortable answer.
The Guardian
Spare a couple of minor touches, backstory is absent. These are real people dealing with a situation that doesn?t allow for asides about their childhood or who?s waiting for them at home.
Fotogramas
A sensational and exciting film (...) at times tension has classic war thriller and in others (the best), make the film a kind of light 'Twelve Angry Men' (1957).
The Playlist
While certainly imperfect, there is something to admire about the film?s attempt to present the tangled logistics of a single military operation, where it seems everyone wants success but none of the responsibility of the tough decision making involved.
The Telegraph
'Eye in the Sky' is a tick-tock suspense exercise as well as a neat little ethical echo chamber, a plea for reason in a world exploding too vigorously to give it the time of day.