In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.
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Film Cast:
- Commandant Tom Egan: Ethan Hawke
- Molly Egan: January Jones
- Airman Vera Suarez: Zoë Kravitz
- M.I.C. Joseph Zimmer: Jake Abel
- Lieutenant Colonel Jack Johns: Bruce Greenwood
- Emily James: Alma Sisneros
- Iris: Kristen DeVore Rakes
- Capt. Ed Christie: Dylan Kenin
- Danny: Michael Sheets
- Langley: Peter Coyote
- The Woman: Fatima El Bahraquy
- The Boy: El Khttabi Abdelouahab
- Frank: Colin Jones
- Airman Roy Carlos: Ryan Montano
- Billy: Stafford Douglas
- Travis Egan: Zion Rain Leyba
- Jesse Egan: Sachie Capitani
- Lt. Drier: Ross Shaw
- Trooper Morgan: Kevin Wiggins
Film Crew:
- Producer: Andrew Niccol
- Script Supervisor: Jennifer Josephson
- Camera Operator: Amir Mokri
- Editor: Zach Staenberg
- Casting: Jo Edna Boldin
- Producer: Nicolas Chartier
- Producer: Mark Amin
- Producer: Zev Foreman
- Casting: Hamid Ait Timaghrit
- Production Design: Guy Barnes
- Casting: Avy Kaufman
- Set Costumer: Shaun Garcia
- Set Costumer: Liz Pecos
- Costume Design: Lisa Jensen
- Art Direction: Robert Scoville
- Hairstylist: Megan Daum
- Costume Supervisor: Cassidy Zachary
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ethan Beigel
- Art Department Coordinator: Brian Austin Wenrich
- First Assistant Editor: Stewart McAlpine
- Hairstylist: Mary Lampert
- Digital Intermediate: Anneli Oscarsson
- Camera Operator: Daniel C. Gold
- Digital Intermediate: Jonas Jangvad
- Set Decoration: Rachid Quiat
- Gaffer: Jay Kemp
- Rigging Gaffer: Waylon Brady
- Music Editor: Fernand Bos
- Visual Effects Producer: Sebastian Leutner
- Set Decoration: Wendy Ozols-Barnes
- Helicopter Camera: Dylan Goss
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Craig Lyn
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Michael Wortmann
- Makeup Department Head: Gretchen Bright
- Music Supervisor: Libby Umstead
- Original Music Composer: Christophe Beck
- Music Supervisor: Dana Sano
- Production Supervisor: Dusty Dukatz
- Makeup Artist: Bonnie Masoner
- Greensman: Duprelon Tizdale
- Makeup Artist: Reyna Robinson
- Foley Editor: Ryan Wassil
- Production Manager: Ahmed Abounouom
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Aaron Levy
- Production Supervisor: Marjorie Ergas
- First Assistant Director: Nicholas Mastandrea
- Line Producer: Ryan Westheimer
- Dialogue Editor: Paul Longstaffe
- Makeup Artist: Navya La Shay
- Leadman: Greg Davidson
- Post Production Supervisor: Larry Ferguson Jr.
- Boom Operator: Steven Willer
- Stunt Coordinator: Gérard Lesage
- Dolly Grip: Ian Hanna
- Gaffer: Driss Marzak
- Rigging Grip: Mark Steinig
- Key Costumer: Jennifer Gingery
- Aerial Director of Photography: James Swanson
- Location Manager: Christian Diaz de Bedoya
- Title Designer: Kyle Cooper
- Aerial Coordinator: Frédéric North
- Stunt Coordinator: Ed Duran
- Visual Effects Producer: Daniel Chavez
- Production Coordinator: Melanie Kirk
- Key Grip: Kurt Kornemann
- Property Master: Mark Hansen
Movie Reviews:
- Reno: **A modern warfare and its effect on the family of a person who involved in it.**
- I like this director’s films, because he writes the screenplay for all his films and each were so different with cleverness in narration. Sadly, this is the first one I didn’t like. It was very similar to the ‘Eye in the Sky’, but came before than that and with a stretched storyline. It centres on Thomas, a pilot for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) stationed at an air base in Las Vegas, but fighting combat in the middle-east. Every day he’s bombing at the terrorist makes him quite uneasy when the innocents get killed. And on the other hand, failing to handle his family with his professional distress brings more complication and how it ends are the rest of the film.
- In my view I think the overly sentimentalised great film concept destroyed it. The emotions work fine in the war themes, but here it gives a wrong idea over battle against the terror outfits. Because of a combat officer with the sympathetic mind, that considered as the weakness of a soldier. So it all begins with the writing, if one wants to make a war film, a modern warfare, relying on this kind of storyline brings only anti sentiments from the soldier’s perspective and we the people who love our nation.
- I understand when the main film characters are not physically present at the actual battleground, not easy to draw a good story out of it. And due to the complete absent of a soldier getting injured in a crossfire, they wend for different kind of emotional dealing. The only thing that made me sense was the sexual abuse parts and how it was taken care later. Good actors, good direction, but a weak story and shortfall of some good thrill moments makes it an average.
- 5/10