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2015
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Positive Reviews
74
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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2.5
These are questions worth asking, and there are certainly worse reasons to make a movie than trying to keep UAVstheir morality, and the toll they take ..
Av Club
3.0
Even a dud like 2011s In Time had enough neat little details to make a ridiculous premise engaging in spurts.
We Got This Covered
2.5
The earnest drama Good Kill provocatively explores the blurred line between an act of war and an act of terrorism in this modern age of human conflict ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
It moves along briskly enough, and Hawkes committed, unshowy lead performance goes some way towards keeping things real.
Screen Daily
1.5
Its an issue worth discussing, but Good Kill isnt worthy of the issue.
Collider
3.5
Reviewing American Sniper, I argued its lies of omission about the Iraq occupation were an attempt to turn a criminally bungled, uniquely tragic event ..
Vulture
2.6
Andrew Niccol also seems to have a problem with this type of warfare, and Good Kill gives the writer director a platform to hit his audience over the ..
Paste Magazine
3.1
It might be, but while Good Kill seems to insist that it is, it never convincingly makes the case, which remains too strongly rooted in Egans understa ..
Rogerebert
3.5
It is a powerful message, and Hawkes portrayal of the pilots side in the film is gripping.
IGN
3.0
Andrew Niccols new film is a sophisticated, provocative and thoroughly modern war film that makes Clint Eastwoods recent American Sniper look slow to ..
Telegraph
3.0
Good Kill is an engaging and impressively persuasive film dealing with the (dystopian) future of warfare.
The Young Folks
3.0
When Egan and his team are told theyll now be taking orders from the CIA, theyre uncomfortable.
Ny Daily News
2.5
Instead, its simply boring, which is something a movie with a subject matter like this should never be.
JoBlo
3.0
Theres a lot of rationalizing in this topical, sombre film on the war on terror a sort of American Sniper, but in which the sharp shooting is done fro ..
The Globe And Mail
5.0
Good Kill is one of the most spiritually literate films of the year.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
One has to give it credit for taking on a serious subject, even if it fumbles the attempt.
One Guys Opinion
3.5
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 wi ..
Blu Ray
4.0
This is less visually inventive than Niccols other features, but the bold, confrontational tone commands ones attention, and the castwhich also includ ..
Chicago Reader
4.0
We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video Thomas Egan started his ca ..
The Times
4.0
As such this is a cautionary counterpart to Clint Eastwoods American Sniper, and while its largely intimate surroundings can make the drama appear rat ..
Radio Times
4.0
Good Kill is a strange film to watch.It sometimes has the feel of a real war film.
Independent
3.8
Thats the loaded premise behind Good Kill, a potent provocation that keeps gnawing at you.
Rolling Stone
3.1
Good Kill blasts its targets a little too forcefully, but it also raises worthwhile questions about the queasy morality of a new kind of war.
News Day
4.5
Good Kill is a fascinating character study set in a vividly evoked dystopian universe.
Film Journal
3.0
There is, of course, no such thing as a good kill. Andrew Niccols drama will remind you of that, repeatedly.
The Guardian
3.0
But, spare as it is, Good Kill might have benefited from an even starker approach, one that really let us think out the issues for ourselves.
The Guardian
4.0
And yet this smart and serious thinkpiece never loses sight of the overheads: the steep personal price paid by Egan, and the collateral damage incurre ..
The Guardian
3.0
This is repugnant stuff. But, at least in the film, theres no gray area.
Az Central
4.0
None of this, however, is to say that Good Kill isnt a good, sometimes very powerful movie merely that its reach exceeds its grasp.The very fact that ..
Mountain X
2.0
Its a movie that hits every one of its ideological targets, but still winds up missing the mark.
Npr
3.2
Ethan Hawke plays an Air Force pilot unhappily reassigned to Chair Force duty, where he rains death on individual Taliban targets from an air conditio ..
Ew
3.0
What a pity, as Niccol is an intelligent writer much better than this somewhat compromised effort suggests.
Flim List
4.0
Ethan Hawke shines in a complex, satisfying character study turned combat thriller.
Empire
3.0
Though the movie is heavy and preachy, with characters making too many speeches, Hawkes powerful performance humanizes the incendiary material and giv ..
Common Sense Media
4.0
After having flown three thousand hours in an F 16, U.S. Air Force Major Tommy Egan (Ethan Hawke), the protagonist of Good Kill, is again a man on a m ..
New Yorker
3.1
In Good Kill, filmmaker Andrew Niccol seizes on an unnerving and ever relevant subject.
Slant Magazine
3.1
Ethan Hawke delivers a haggard, grimly convincing portrayal of a modern soldier cum video game player in Good Kill, Andrew Niccols timely meditation o ..
Washington Post
2.5
Disregard the arguments for and against drone warfare advanced in Good Kill, and the movie still makes a persuasive case that our blind infatuation wi ..
The New York Times
4.0
Director Andrew Niccol draws us into the fine details of this hidden military world and airs some meaty arguments about the appliance of science to th ..
Express
2.2
This is unfortunately not the case with Good Kill, just unveiled as part of the Venice competition.
The Film Stage
3.1
Good Kill wants to use the movies as a Trojan horse to confront us with our international sins. Its a worthy effort, even if its not a very well built ..
Boston Globe
2.8
But, hitting me over the head with it over and over again what is right versus what is morally wrong causes the film to loose the edge of its anti war ..
Reeling Reviews
3.2
But, hitting me over the head with it over and over again what is right versus what is morally wrong causes the film to loose the edge of its anti war ..
Reeling Reviews
2.5
This feels like a 30 minute short ineptly padded out to a feature runtime.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Plays like a series of didactic footnotes for a much more interesting film
The Irish Times
3.2
But even that cant compensate for the films wrongheaded conclusion.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.2
But even that cant compensate for the films wrongheaded conclusion.
Blogs Indie Wire
5.0
Good Kill Scores a Bulls Eye Good Kill may not be a summer blockbuster, but it achieves exactly what it sets out to do.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.8
Good Kill excels as a character study with Niccols screenplay making Egan a fascinatingly conflicted and flawed individual and Ethan Hawke giving one ..
ReelViews
5.0
But theres heightened emotion just under the surface in every one of the fascinatingly detailed scenes depicting drone strikes.
Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Good Kill convincingly shows us a development in warfare thats only going to become ever more important, one that weve been preferring not to think to ..
Standard
3.5
Even so, its well done and does emphasize the enormous mental problems created by war.
Tony Medley
2.5
You know when you see a movie, and you dont hate it, but you dont love it, either
Pajiba
4.0
Where Niccol (Gattaca) succeeds is in creating an atmosphere of self loathing, both for those manning the drones and the audience watching them work.
Los Angeles Times
4.0
Its an existence that theoretically combines the gung ho ideals of American heroism and the domestic comforts of the American Dream.
Variety
3.2
Andrew Niccol has a knack for contemplating digital media ethics, and it shows in his often plain spoken rhetoric in Good Kill.
Consequence Of Sound
3.1
The end result is a passable effort that succeeds most keenly as a platform for Aniston, as the actress steps into the shoes of her thoroughly damaged ..
Reel Film
3.8
Can you kill that many people, that safely, that easily, without something dying inside you, too
Nj
3.5
They can see whats happening with pinpoint precision but dont understand it.It doesnt matter.
Oregon Live
3.0
Hawke gives a complex, sensitive portrayal and if Niccol sometimes flounders in externalising that inner conflict, it doesnt detract from the intensit ..
Digital Spy
3.0
Required viewing as a critique of US foreign policy but forgettable as a drama, Good Kill is a timely warning, even if it lacks the power of the horro ..
Games Radar
3.1
Niccols film may not be perfect, but it shines a light on a subject many viewers will know vaguely by name and not much more.
New York Post
3.8
Through Hawke, Good Kill demonstrates a soldier undone by the remove of killing remotely, where the only risk comes from retaliation or the conscience ..
Red Eye Chicago
3.5
If it doesnt hit the same heights as Gattaca and Lord of War, this is a step in the right direction for Niccol after In Time and The Host.
The Stranger
3.5
In keeping with its good, ironic title, Good Kill has an important subject, drone warfarethe eerily disembodied process in which pilots watching video ..
Wsj
2.5
The teleconferencing/bombing sequences are Good Kills most dramatic and cinematic.
The Dissolve
1.0
As it is, the audience seems likely to leave feeling scolded or pandered to, depending.Not a great time.
Sandiego Reader
3.5
It is a phrase that grows increasingly ironic and fraught as Niccol examines what it means to kill from a distance.
Straits Times
2.0
Good Kill wont let you miss how subtly clever it is, but it needs at least one more aspect, or it needs to take one less predictable direction.
Metro New York
2.5
But this up to the minute scenario is constrained by the ploddingly routine domestic dramas of Hawkes character.
Film Comment
2.0
Whatever human drama can take place on the sidelines feels perfunctory, and sad.
Crave Online
3.8
Still, it deserves your attention for tackling such a timely and controversial subject.
Bitly
3.0
Its not a subject weve seen debated on film muchcertainly never to this degree.
Under The Radar Mag
3.8
The man is falling apart , and we can see it in just about every frame.
Movie Mezzanine
3.0
I blew away six Taliban in Pakistan just today.Now Im going home to barbecue.
What So
3.8
At times Good Kill is almost purely intellectual, either by throwing its characters into arguments or carefully arranging them to make its own, but it ..
National Post
4.0
War being played out as a lethal video game is the fascinating subject for this cautionary thriller from director Andrew Niccol (Lord of War).
Sky
3.0
Hawke, in particular, delivers a powerful and nuanced portrayal of a patriotic soldier who knows what he does is morally wrong yet realises it is to s ..
The New Paper
3.5
Tonally, its a little like an Atom Egoyan film blanched, drained and set on the sideboard for a while (but in a good way).
New City Film
3.0
Its thoughtful and timely, offering an unsettling look at the two faces of modern warfare.
Toronto Sun
1.0
His attempt at a redemptive gesture is weak, and maybe its meant to be depicted that way, but it still offers precious little dramatic payoff for us.
Fw Weekly
2.5
In the right hands, Good Kill could have been an intriguing look into the most modern aspect of our modern warfare.The hands it is in arent quite the ..
Columbus Alive
2.5
Infusing plenty of technological detail, the films premise offers an interesting, if not necessarily fresh, outlook on the concept of the war on terro ..
Cairo 360
3.5
Killing is never good no, not even in whatever hypothetical situation just popped into your head and Andrew Niccols Good Kill considers the psychologi ..
Sf Weekly
3.8
Unfortunately, rx this new movie about the Rathergate scandal offers neither.
Johnhanlon Reviews
3.0
Good Kill is war movie as moral crucible, where death is a movie watched on a video screen.
Stream On Demand At Home
3.0
The viewer may come away with a conclusion, but that is merely a by product of this remarkable film.
Aarp
3.5
But Niccols literate script easily carries the film over its more cramped aspects.
Saportare Port
4.4
But its not.Its unlike any war fought in the millennias long history of warfare.
Seattle Times
3.5
Its not just the G forces and the rush of speed.Theres something about deployment that makes war more real.
Seattle Weekly
3.0
This look at US drone use in the war on terror sees quality and brains collide to thrilling effect.
Daily Record
5.0
The entrance to the drone command center may say You Are Leaving the U.S. of A, but it is located in the Nevada desert.Egan is something new in this h ..
Daily Public
4.0
Theyre only going to get more evolved and probably the next movie Andrew and I will do together will be a video game.
Blog Cleveland
2.5
Good Kill ends up being a ponderous slog, a film that wants to be a conversation starter but doesnt introduce any new or interesting entry points into ..
Sojo
4.4
Good Kill is more a psychological drama than a war movie, and its limited scale serves the film well.
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