Eye in the Sky (2015)

Elevator Pitch.

After the death of one of their spies on the ground in Kenya the British military are prepared to use the American technology manifest in a drone piloted from the USA and the local secret service who have deployed an ornithopter, to follow the activities of a terrorist group, with the intent of sending out the local security services to capture those in the house under surveillance, but when the group are seen to be preparing a suicide bombing attack the mission is changed from one of “capture” to “kill”, using the drone’s missiles. But within range of the target is a small girl selling bread. What to do?

Content.

We get a couple of views of the drone, which is said to being flying in a circle at 20,000 ft, and many views of the terrorist building from the air, from the outside by means of the ornithopter, and from the inside by means of the insectothopter. The colonel in charge bends the rules, in a COBRA meeting British politicians argue, in Singapore the Foreign Secretary pontificates, and in the underground bunker from which the drone is controlled the pilot and co-pilot sweat it out. We feel for the Kenyan agents out in the streets controlled by Kalashnikov toting terrorists, and for the girl who is unknowingly in the target area.