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Good Kill

  • 20142014
  • 14A14A
  • 1h 42m
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6.4/10
24K
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Ethan Hawke in Good Kill (2014)
A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
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A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
24K
YOUR RATING
    • Andrew Niccol
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  • Stars
    • Ethan Hawke
    • January Jones
    • Zoë Kravitz
    • Andrew Niccol
    • Andrew Niccol
  • Stars
    • Ethan Hawke
    • January Jones
    • Zoë Kravitz
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    • 86User reviews
    • 175Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
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    Ethan Hawke
    Ethan Hawke
    • Major Thomas Egan
    January Jones
    January Jones
    • Molly Egan
    Zoë Kravitz
    Zoë Kravitz
    • Airman Vera Suarez
    Fatima El Bahraouy
    • The Woman
    • (as Fatima El Bahraquy)
    El Khttabi Abdelouahab
    • The Boy
    Bruce Greenwood
    Bruce Greenwood
    • Lt. Colonel Jack Johns
    Jake Abel
    Jake Abel
    • M.I.C. Joseph Zimmer
    Ryan Montano
    • Airman Roy Carlos
    Dylan Kenin
    Dylan Kenin
    • Capt. Ed Christie
    Stafford Douglas
    Stafford Douglas
    • Billy
    Zion Rain Leyba
    • Travis Egan
    • (as Zion Leyba)
    Sachie Capitani
    Sachie Capitani
    • Jesse Egan
    Michael Sheets
    Michael Sheets
    • Danny
    Ross Shaw
    • Lt. Drier
    Chakir Faiz
    • The Man
    Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote
    • Langley
    • (voice)
    Colin Jones
    • Frank
    Kristen DeVore Rakes
    Kristen DeVore Rakes
    • Iris
    • (as Kristen Rakes)
      • Andrew Niccol
      • Andrew Niccol
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    • Trivia
      Approximately an hour into the film, the team engage in an operation in Yemen. Vera Suarez says, "I've never been to Yemen, sir," and the footage cuts to the drone camera over a traditional Yemeni home with open courtyards. This is actually a movie set, constructed in Ouarzazate, Morocco for the Jerusalem sequence in Ridley Scott 's Kingdom of Heaven (2005). By agreement with the town's government it remained standing after the film wrapped, and is a popular location for productions involving similarly medieval architecture. It was recently featured during Season 4 of the TV show Game of Thrones (2011). Despite being mostly complete, you can identify it as a movie set from the shot in the film, by noting the scaffolding on the bottom of the structure revealing an incomplete wall. A battering ram prop from Kingdom of Heaven (2005) can be seen next to this scaffolding.
    • Goofs
      In one scene, Major Egan speaks of enjoying the fear of flying combat missions. That includes the fear and danger of making a landing on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night. However, Major Egan is in the Air Force and they do not land on aircraft carriers; only Navy or Marine aviators do. Also, the plane Major Egan flies, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, does not land on aircraft carriers in any case.
    • Quotes

      Vera Suarez: Was that a war crime, sir?

      Jack Johns: Shut the fuck up, Suarez!

    • Connections
      Featured in Projector: Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2/Good Kill (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Bang Bang Boom
      Written by Tim Myers

      Performed by The Unknown

      Courtesy of Palladium Records

      By arrangement with Zync Music Group, LLC

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    7/10
    How stupid are wars and how can we justify collateral damage?
    Even though I hate every war and soldiers on this planet I did enjoy this movie. It's all about the ethics of war. Who has the right killing other people? And is it fair for the innocent bystanders to get killed and being considered as collateral damage? Because let's be honest, the people that are at the top of every government and/or army, the people that decide if we should go to war or not, those are the people that will never get killed because they are the biggest cowards on this planet. They risk absolutely nothing but still get the credit in case of a victory or whatever. In Good Kill Ethan Hawke plays the soldier that has to push the trigger to kill people from the other end of the world, without being in the front line. He has to follow the dubious orders from maleficent evil people that have only greed and possessions as values in their lives. I thought it was a good movie, if you want to think a little bit further then the mainstream war propaganda we see every day. A good movie if you are like me thinking that every war is completely ridiculous. If everybody would mind his own business then there would never be wars. But then again, we are humans, the parasites of this planet, and thinking this madness will ever end is just an utopian idea.
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    • Jul 6, 2015

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    • Release date
      • May 15, 2015 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Morocco
    • Production companies
      • Voltage Pictures
      • Dune Films
      • Dune Films
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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