The A.V. Club | ‘Eye In The Sky’ Review
The A.V. Club
“In war, truth is the first casualty,” Aeschylus assures us on the opening crawl of Eye In The Sky. The nudging placement of this Classics-seminar quotation can’t help but feel pretentious, but in fact there’s something authentically Socratic about Gavin Hood’s new thriller. At times, the dialogue gets downright dialectical as various American and British officers and functionaries plan an air strike against a houseful of Kenyan terrorists. The grim irony at the heart of Guy Hibbert’s screenplay is that getting military-starred middle-managers to authorize a tactical strike is as grueling as any garden-variety bureaucratic sign-off.
