Howd you like to lie back out of harms way, AC blasting grab a remote and button-push a drone to bomb the shit out of your countrys enemy? Not a game. For real. Screw any collateral damage. Thats the loaded premise behind Good Kill, a potent provocation that keeps gnawing at you. Ethan Hawke digs deep and gives one of his best performances as Tom Egan, a former fighter pilot in Iraq, now assigned to a base near Las Vegas and ordered by his CO (a barking Bruce Greenwood) to bring down destruction on the Taliban. Forget personal consequences. Except, maybe, to his moral conscience.
Writer-director Andrew Niccol, who worked impressively with Hawke on the topic of genetic modification in 1997s Gattaca, puts a lot out there. Theres Toms tortured relationship with his wife (an excellent January Jones) and kids. Theres his feelings about Obamas drone policy. Tom doesnt talk much; his co-pilot (Zo Kravitz) does. And theres the whole thorny issue of modern warfare and covert surveillance. Will gamers be the pilots of tomorrow? Will death lose its sting? Niccol conjectures all over the place. Hes doing too much, pushing too hard. Condemn the guy or clone him? You be the judge.
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