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However, it’s a very human decision that drives
Outside the Wire. After making a snap judgement to take out the potential threat of an armoured vehicle which appeared to be menacing a group of 40 soldiers, Haribo-loving drone pilot Lieutenant Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) finds himself in the firing line for the resulting death of the two who were in the blast zone. But rather than being court-martialed, Harp is redeployed – to the frontline. “Consider it an all-expenses paid refresher in how to save the world,” his airforce base boss intones. Once on the ground, Harp is assigned to the care of Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie). To his horror, Harp’s first task is to assist Leo in delivering cholera vaccines “20 clicks outside the wire”. “It might be a warzone, but women and children still get sick,” Leo informs him, when Harp whines that he thought he would simply be guarding a fence.
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI: 4 STARS We ll never know exactly what was said between Cassius Clay, Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, soul singer Sam Cooke, and football superstar Jim Brown behind closed doors in a Miami hotel room on February 25, 1964, but a new film by Oscar winner Regina King in her directorial debut offers up a fascinating what-if scenario. Going into the boxing ring on that night against heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay (Halifax-born Eli Goree), who had not yet officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali, was a 7-to-1 underdog. When the fight was over, Clay was the youngest boxer to ever grab a title from a reigning heavyweight champion.
In its depiction of a war set 15 years in the future, Mikael Hafstromâs
Outside The Wire does what all the best sci-fi stories do: uses advanced science and technology to make a comment on modernity. The target in this particular case, so to speak, is the diminution of the human factor in warfare, with it becoming routine for drones operated by pilots thousands of miles away from combat zones to execute operations. In this endeavor it is ultimately rather clever, doing a deep dive on utilitarian philosophy while throwing some excellent action into the mix â but it is also a case of a movie trying to do a little too much.