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Following his big break in
Captain Phillips
, and an Oscar nomination,
Somalian-born actor Barkhad Abdi returns as an undercover operative
in Gavin Hood’s gripping drone warfare thriller.
E
ye in the Sky
is a film that not
only raises important, topical
issues, but also brings back
painful memories of Barkhad Abdi’s own
troubled past.
In Gavin Hood’s critically acclaimed,
edge of the seat thriller, he plays
undercover operative Jama Farah, who is
tracking a group of terrorists on the ground
in Nairobi.
Thousands of miles away in London,
the operation is being masterminded,
and monitored via the use of cutting edge
surveillance technology, by the UK military,
headed by Colonel Katherine Powell
(Helen Mirren) who, in turn, must report to
British politicians every step of the way.
Across the ocean in Nevada, Britain’s
allies, the US, are providing drones that
monitor the suspects as they gather in a
house. The plan is to capture them, with