Though it tackles drone warfare, Eye in the Sky removes itself from many of the thornier issues of this ultra-timely subject. It’s modeled as a gritty military thriller, but is also a light sci-fi film, its plot incorporating the use of technology that’s either not yet refined, like a hummingbird drone (which, believe it or not, is real), or purely conjectural, like a tiny beetle drone. Thus, as Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) leads a secret mission in Nairobi, they have surveillance capabilities which give them a far clearer picture of the situation on the ground than any real such operation could currently hope for. One of the more maddening, frightening aspects of drone warfare is the ambiguity over just how many of the people who have been killed from tens of thousands of feet up were in fact “the bad guys.” That ambiguity is absent here.
The...
The...
- 3/9/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
“Ground control to Major Steve…”
Imagine being stuck out in space in a small, cramped corridor. The air is running low, and you know you have only minutes to live. What goes through your mind during those times? There’s no chance for rescue, and your logic fights your hope, warring against the cold equations of your situation.
This is the situation that Steven (Peter Purves), and Oliver (Tom Allen), find themselves in at the start of “The Cold Equations,” the second part of Big Finish’s Oliver Trilogy. They’ve got only a few minutes left to live, the Tardis is drifting in space, and the two men face what may be their last minutes together.
They got into this situation by arriving in orbit of a future Earth, on board a space station. Earth itself is something of a wasteland and the orbital area...
“Ground control to Major Steve…”
Imagine being stuck out in space in a small, cramped corridor. The air is running low, and you know you have only minutes to live. What goes through your mind during those times? There’s no chance for rescue, and your logic fights your hope, warring against the cold equations of your situation.
This is the situation that Steven (Peter Purves), and Oliver (Tom Allen), find themselves in at the start of “The Cold Equations,” the second part of Big Finish’s Oliver Trilogy. They’ve got only a few minutes left to live, the Tardis is drifting in space, and the two men face what may be their last minutes together.
They got into this situation by arriving in orbit of a future Earth, on board a space station. Earth itself is something of a wasteland and the orbital area...
- 12/3/2011
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
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