Did anyone else think this movie was too slow? Spoilers.
I patiently waited for the movie to pick up or at least spend the time to give more background on the little girl so I could feel for her more. Instead it was painfully slow and the little girl who we are suppose to care about had no depth. Besides the fact that she likes hula-hoop and sells bread she was just another face. I also couldn't move past the sci-fi technology like the beetle camera and the gold hummingbird. That was just too much for me and frankly unnecessary. They could of just kept one window open and had a guy zooming in with a camera, at least it would be realistic.
Not to be jaded but I felt nothing for any of the characters. I couldn't empathize with the pilots tough time firing the missile or care for the little girls life. I could however understand the politicians not wanting to be responsible and passing the buck due to the negative propaganda.
I'm just simply shocked that this movie got such a high rating. 90 minutes of people having discussions. I don't believe if that many high profile targets are in one room along with the immediate threat of a suicide bombing but at the cost of a little girl selling bread, that there would be so much indecision. Not from full-time politicians and military personal.
Casualties on a much larger scale happen all the time in these situations. When the women politician said "if 80 people die from the bombing then we can blame the terrorists but if 1 girl dies they win" and also fear of the drone video getting out on YouTube was a bunch of BS. They could easily swing it and say that they not only had 3 top level terrorists in the their sights but also prevented a suicide bombing in which they had visual proof of. That alone would be enough to garner public approval. In the US they justified an entire war on Iraq for "weapons of mass destruction" which was later found out to not be true. If they could get away with that then I doubt a dead bread girl would even crack the news.
I gave it 3 stars.