Game of Aces is a 2016 World War I action film written and directed by Damien Lay, in his debut in helming a fiction feature.
[3] In 1918, British General Rupert Graves III (Randy Oglesby) recruits Eleanor Morgan (Victoria Summer), an English nurse and translator to help locate and bring back a top German pilot who has crashed in Egypt.
Jackson Cove (Chris Klein), an American pilot flying for the British Allied forces who will navigate to the remote crash site.
Josef von Zimmerman (Werner Daehn), an ace who killed Cove's younger brother in aerial combat.
[1] Steven Wright in his review for Slant Magazine, noted: "Each facet of its spare construction—only three main characters, one unified setting, and a timespan of around a day—reflects a canny, utilitarian approach to both plot and budget.