Good Kill

Good Kill (2015) is Andrew Niccol's war drama starring Ethan Hawke, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Air Force major Tom Egan fights the Taliban without ever leaving an air-conditioned trailer in the Nevada desert.

Egan used to fly fighter jets. Now his war runs on a joystick and a screen: he pilots drones over Afghanistan, presses a button, watches the flash, then drives home to his wife and kids like it was any other shift. Six combat tours are behind him, and the cockpit he misses isn't coming back. January Jones plays the wife he keeps drifting away from, Bruce Greenwood the commander handing out orders from the next seat over, and Zoe Kravitz a new sensor operator who can't stomach it either.

The breaking point comes when a strike kills bystanders and the CIA orders him to keep going. Niccol skips the action-movie beats for a quiet study of a man turned into an executioner thousands of miles from the front. Stream Good Kill (2015) online on iFILM.