THE young girl dancing with her hula hoop in her backyard in a poor area of Nairobi should not have been hit by a missile from an aircraft she never even saw. But tragedy occurred—and this is the important part in the film Eye in the Sky.

Eye in the Sky is a fiction that tells realistically the bitter dilemmas of modern warfare.

Three Al-Shabaab terrorists are meeting in a safehouse in Nairobi. They have been under surveillance for some t