Good Kill

Good Kill follows Tom Egan, a US Air Force officer who once flew combat aircraft and now spends his shifts at a console in Nevada, operating armed drones over Afghanistan by remote control. He puts in long hours firing at Taliban targets while his wife, Molly, and their children wait for him at home, where the strain between them steadily grows. Troubled by the civilian deaths his strikes cause and by the distance between himself and the fighting, Egan begins to question whether the campaign he serves is doing more harm than good, a doubt that sharpens when he is handed a mission of questionable legality.

Andrew Niccol directed and wrote the film, which sits between The Host (2013) and Anon (2018) in a filmography that also includes Gattaca, S1m0ne, Lord of War and In Time. Ethan Hawke plays Egan, with January Jones as Molly, Zoë Kravitz as Airman Vera Suarez, Jake Abel as Joseph Zimmer and Bruce Greenwood as Lieutenant Colonel Jack Johns. Niccol produced alongside Mark Amin and Nicolas Chartier. Made in the United States and Morocco, it runs 104 minutes.

The film drew a film critics' rating of 6.4/10 from 127 reviews, close to the 6/10 it holds on TMDB from 628 votes, and it holds the same 6/10 on IMDb; critics were somewhat more favourable than the wider viewing public.