Review of Eye in the Sky (2007) by Clay W — 12 May 2016

Disgusting. Remember wikileaks posted the REAL actual video feed from a drone as it was bombing innocent civilians along with the REAL actual audio from the drone pilots and command center. The video from the drone was low res, black & white, and the drone operator couldn't identify who was in the street or what they were doing.

Just that some people were carrying something. So he asked central command for permission to attack and immediately got a 'sure go for it', and then started blowing people up, all the while laughing and joking that the bodies were still moving and he was going to 'hit em again'.

Later on it was determined that he was killing a Reuters journalist who was carrying a camera. But there was no apology or remourse, and in fact later, when the US military hit Fallujah, the first thing they was bomb the hospitals.

When asked about it later, again the military showed no remourse and just dismissed it arguing that if they didn't take out the hospitals, they would have published casualty statistics that could be used as propaganda, so it was a valid military target.

All in all, they destroyed 80% of all the buildings in what was once a peaceful city, and 50% of the population is now gone. The survivors regrouped and formed ISIS. But this film completely whitewashes and defends the horrific terrorism that the US and its allies perpetrated on the middle east.

It depicts that the military has man-made flying beattles with super sophisticated cameras that allow them to get close, and that they only launched a strike when the identify of the targets was positively confirmed and they were on the verge of blowing up a shopping center, and even then, held off attacking while they went to extraordinary lengths to try to save a girl in the area selling bread, and only striked when they had no other choice, and then were weaping over the tragic death of the girl.

Thanks to wikileaks we have the real, actual video and audio feeds and we know the truth is completely the opposite--they slaugher people on a whim and treat it as sport, hollering and laughing like they're playing X-Box.

This film tries to rewrite history, presenting some absurd, wildly inaccurate re-enactment, to whitewash and justify the horrific slaugher of millions of innocent people. How would Hollywood respond if a film came out giving the Nazi's the same treatment, arguing they only killed when they had absolutely no other choice, and the Nazi's weapt over the loss of life, but it was a gut-wrenching decision that had to be made to save even more people? Is this film any less disgusting?