The battlefield in Andrew Niccol's (Gattaca, The Truman Show) latest is within the soul of Major Thomas Egan (a drawn and dead-eyed Ethan Hawke), a former fighter pilot who now spends his days in a metal box on a military base outside Las Vegas, piloting drones and taking out Middle East targets. The daily deadly desk-jockey routine of killing Taliban and then going home to barbecue has left him with one foot in each world and no heart for either. Alcohol helps but not really, and his wife (January Jones) is getting sick of the silent treatment. His gruff, low-key CO (Bruce Greenwood) sympathizes, but there's still work to be done, even the kind of morally murky work demanded by remote CIA bosses who order kills over the phone like pizza. Niccol's eye is still true — he makes great use of Vegas's empty deserts — but the problem in with the talking. The CO has to make speeches — that's his job, and he does it well — but does that mean the soldiers have to sound off, too? (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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