BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

GUENOT PHILIPPE Nothing exceptional here, if you forget the unforeseeable ending. The terrific ending. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS The topic has already been told many times before, I agree, thousand times, where billions of psychopaths getting friends with the families of their victims before suddenly showing their real nature. Psychopaths usually the heavies of the films. Bad guys, or even cheeks - such as HANDS ACROSS THE CRADDLE, something loke this, starring Rebecca De Mornay, seeking revenge towards good families. The particularity here is that you can't prevent yourself to feel empathy for the poor father whose family was killed by the US drome, more or less lead, driven by the good family man Sean Bean. And you really feel anger, hate, so much pain when the two finally fight and the "bad guy" seeking revenge for his family death gets stabbed by the responsible for the poor guy's folk death. You feel something disgusting in your mouth, like a sort of dust taste. That's why I ask this question, who or where is the bad guy in this film? That's my question. For the rest of the feature, no surprise, except, I repeat, the ending.

Jeff2sayshi Sean Bean plays Neil, a military contractor. Unlike other contractors his contract involves flying drones from back home in the USA, not boots on the ground. He does his job, goes home and lives his life.The legality and morality of drone warfare is a current hot topic, and is the core of this thriller. When Neil is introduced to Imir, with the intention of selling his recently deceased father's boat, all of that comes boiling out in some well played scenes.Unfortunately, those scenes don't overwhelm some of the terribleness earlier on and later in the movie. The director and writer clearly had a message they wanted to say, and they say it with some of extremely heavy handed dialogue. These scenes potentially also lead to some of the bad performances of the actors, as in other, more intimate scenes, the acting can be decent.The movie also throws in a couple like sideplots which don't really go anywhere. The movie wanted to show that everybody has secrets, but it doesn't really contribute to the main storyline, and wasn't needed.The movie isn't horrible, and there were certainly times it was enjoyable, but the reverse is also true where there were points that were awful.

Baleegh Shaw There are lots of wrong detailing in the movie "Drone" 1. The producer of the movie has no idea of the geographical location of the city of Miranshah which is shown in the movie; first the city of Miranshah is located close to the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, secondly it is city surrounded by mountains but in the movie, it is shown close to the sea which is totally wrong. 2. The city in the start is shown Miranshah where as it was actually filmed in India, all the writings on the walls are in Hindi and the vehicles are made by TATA where as in actual in Pakistan TATA manufactured vehicles are nowhere to be found. 3. The area shown is full of dirt where as in actual Pakistan is much cleaner then India and as it was an Indian town so the area shown is too dirty. 4. Moreover, the language used by the characters is Hindi whereas the words in conversation used are Hindi words and not Pakistani which was also wrongfully shown. It is therefore requested that in future if movies on such topic be produced at least the factual errors must be omitted.

lavatch In the bonus segment of the DVD version of "Drone," there was a deleted scene that was instructive in defining the dysfunction of the Wistin family. The teenage son named Shane is being counseled at his high school, and he opens up to the psychologist about his home life. The youngster is grieving over the death of his grandfather, but the grief extends to Shane's frustrating relationship with his dad with whom the youngster is unable to communicate.The inclusion of this deleted scene in the final film cut would have explained more completely the backdrop for the troubled Wistin family that was left vague for filmmgoers. And the core emotion of guilt is what drives the parents of Shane: the guilt of the mother Ellen who is having an affair and the guilt of the father Neil who is a contractor for the CIA involved in drone strikes in the Middle East.The film opens in Miramsha, Pakistan on March 21, 2016, where innocent civilians are killed in an American drone strike. On the one-year anniversary of the strike, the scene shifts to Renton, Washington where on the fateful anniversary, the Wistin family will be confronted by Imir Shah, whose wife and daughter perished in the strike.Unintentionally, the serious drama lapses into near comedy, due to the naivety and indeed stupidity of the husband, who fails to perceive the danger posed by Mr. Shah, arriving at his home with a briefcase and claiming that he wishes to spend $16,000 for a used boat! No other motives about the stranger's bizarre appearance on his property occur to the dim-witted Neil.Without a doubt the most interesting character in the film is the inventive Imir Shah. He succeeds in evading the feds in entering the country. He skillfully tracks the top secret work activities of Neil. And he shadows Ellen, capturing her on camera with her lover Ted. In the most moving part of the film, Imir helps Neil with the preparation of the eulogy for his father, suggesting that funeral speech should open with a childhood memory and then address the three constituent elements of how the dead live on in our memories through (a) their good deeds; (b) charity given in the spirit of their good name; and (c) the knowledge they leave behind that benefited others. Those words of wisdom seemingly had never been considered by Neil.The heart and soul of the film is the confessional that occurs in the Wistin family. Yet the aftereffect of the family's newfound understanding seems shallow. Neil was in violation of the Geneva protocol. Will his whistleblowing actions serve to expiate his sins? Will they be anything more than a drop in the bucket with regard to the covert operations of the CIA? Similarly, it is not clear if Ellen will be transformed from the experience. Her background is in ethnology, and she teaches "comparative cultures" at the local community college. Will she become any more enlightened from the traumatic encounter in her home? The family member who appears to have the greatest humanity is young Shane, who fittingly sends out a toy ship into the lake with a nobel tribute paid to his grandfather: "I'll see you in Valhalla, gramps!" Shane is in the best position to transform his life out of the ashes of the secrets and lies of the Wistin family.