Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
h-kitchener
What a disappointment. For some unknown and unstated reason alot of time was spent showcasing a group of dancer jumping and stirring around in chairs to some apparent Jewish song. Totally out of place and rather irritating while taking time from telling the actual story of what happened at Entebbe. The interplay between Peres and Rabin was contrived and made Rabin, a decorated former general seem weak and only concerned with retaining the office of Prime Minister. Peres was portrayed as a war hawk. Yoni Netanyahu was shown only briefly and Dora Block and her fate only mentioned in the end write-up. You won't learn anything much about the raid on Entebbe from this movie. Try the Charles Bronson one called Raid on Entebbe made many years ago.
fivish-1
Who ever wrote the start and end captions made up some 'facts'. The facts are well known. It is astonishing that it made it to screen without being corrected.
Between the captions is a very poor re-telling of the story which we all know and has been put to film many times a long time ago. Clearly there was a hidden motive behind the film, and its backers were happy to lose money for the propaganda value, little that it was.
westsideschl
I have no particular interest in either side - Palestinian or Israeli. So, five stars for the movie itself w/intelligent POVs, as well as confusing POVs.
Eight stars because it exposes so many of the one, two & three star reviewers as categorical & conformational bias thinkers. To them all terrorists are bad and those they fight against are all good. So for one time a movie gives a little space to what is in the terrorist mind - thus the backlash.
The treatment of Palestinians by Israel is similar to how white Europeans treated Native peoples of the Americas (not to mention Africans brought in as slaves) during the centuries of colonization. A fact check of how the lands of Palestinians have dramatically decreased w/fenced barriers & containment of culture, opportunity, movement, resources, and rights in the past 60 years has some resemblance to the reservations of the Americas. Who is dying? A fact check of the number of Palestinians killed by Israel and Israelis killed by Palestinians since 2000 also shows this imbalance (10,000 to 1200) and growing. Whomever wields the armaments, the monetary & political power will always label as terrorist those who are being slowly strangled as they fight for life, self determination & freedom.
The movie closes w/the statement that no peace agreement exists between the two sides. If you have the power then you have the greater potential of creating resolution, but when does power ever want to give any up?
videospoon
Lousy film, humanizes terrorist, Jose Padila has absolutely 0 talent. How do you take one of the most exciting events of the 20th century and turn it into a snooze fest is Senior Padilha's little secret that I do not care to know. Tension level is low, characters as flat a a rug and nothing i mean nothing to fall in love with.
