An excellent, thoughtful and gripping film. Focusing on one drone attack, it very cleverly shows the remarkable degree of international agreement ( or not) that is involved worldwide For just one event. From the Ops Centre in Northwood, to the pilots' shed in Nevada to the UK Cabinet office ( not to mention the life on the ground) the complicated interweaving of disparate points of view and understanding of the situation are linked together in a wonderfully tense film that takes place almost in real time.
The changing reality of the decisions that had to be made in real and rapid time is remarkably conveyed and the range of moral options and arguments was covered in a way that was not melodramatic..and neither did it seem to exemplify ' thinking by numbers' where one would have had the sense of check points for a particular point of view being neatly ticked off. One had, in the short amount of time that the event covered, that boy characters had grown up horribly quickly.
Performances were uniformly excellent.