Review of Eye in the Sky (2007) by Leon B — 16 Sep 2016

Ok, the movie is intense and worth the watch. But, once again, Hollywood steers us away from the real morality tale behind all of this: does having the higher technology in the warfare justify any of this? Why do I only give the movie two stars? Because we allow commentaries, like that made by all of those in this movie and in the critics comments to date, to ignore one harsh thing: a week before I watched the DVD and its Special Features commentary on September 16, 2016, I stumbled across an obscure news report.

It was reported, on some internet site, that a woman from Iraq is trying to bring former president George Bush, Jr. to trial for war crimes. No where does this movie challenge how the lies of Weapons of Mass Destruction justify this continuing violence that really stems from a war built on lies.

3,000 died in New York and we are to bury the reality that this act of violence was in retaliation for the massive dying that goes on and on for the sake of revenge? So, this movie may be admirable in that it is a thriller built around a simple question of morality of the moment.

Oh, I might give it five stars for its value as entertainment, but I hiss and boo at the role of its actors and production staff in the repetitive oversimplification of what is justified in 'a war on terror' WHEN it is forgotten that an American General warned the world that we would face perpetual war if we allowed the word justice to be prevailed over by this inhumane sense that revenge, from any nation or individual, is a justified thing.

The fact is that this movie does not draw in the base fact that all of this began because Republican 'judges' in the State of Florida declared a corrupted voting process as something that their Republican friend, George Bush, should have won.

This 'decision' inside a corrupted 'court' gave Mr. Bush the 'executive power' to begin lying. What is silenced is that this partisan influence extends even into our international courts where the citizen of Iraq and Africa should have the right to ask: where is the accountability for the American lies that really started all of this? To see 'Hollywood' and its actors directing the public into the premise that it becomes a simple matter of the moral right to 'kill terrorists' via new technology is an irresponsible thing.

I wonder when we will get the movie that tells us that the right people are in jail for lies that started all of this illegal nonsense. Don MacAlpine, Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada.