Cert 12A
104 mins
BBFC advice: Contains moderate threat, violence, infrequent strong language
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What hasn't already been said about the raid by the Israeli armed forces to end a hostage siege at Entebbe Airport in 1976?
Well, on the evidence of this film, the answer is nothing much.
Indeed, in my eyes, José Padilha's film doesn't even have the punch of other great movies which have focused or touched on it.
Here Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike play Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann the two German terrorists who have taken up the cause of the Palestinian people.
In their misguided minds, they are advancing their case by hijacking an Air France plane and offering the return of hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Much of the film surrounds the interaction between the pair and the escalating pressure on them as they hold their captives at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.
The flip side of the coin is the dilemma faced by the Israeli politicians who are torn between a military intervention and negotiating with terrorists for the first time.
Lior Ashkenazi plays Yitzhak Rabin, a moderate Prime Minister who was assassinated nearly 20 years later.
Meanwhile Eddie Marsan portrays defence minister Shimon Peres who is bullish in his demands for action.
If this had been the first time I had seen a movie about the seven days in Entebbe, I probably would have been enthralled but the problem was that I knew the story so well that I knew what was coming next.
Indeed, even the shape of the movie has very little difference to Irvin Kerschner's Raid On Entebbe which had the benefit of being contemporaneous.
In addition, neither Brühl nor Pike looked particular confident in their roles although I have to admire the quality of her German delivery (I couldn't understand why the Israelis were not speaking in Hebrew).
Entebbe could have been sold to cinema audiences as being about a hijacking which changed airport security forever and could have been seen as an explainer for the X-ray machines we know nowadays.
It wasn't, so the film was probably not seen as particularly relevant by the public and, consequently, has scored poorly at the box office.
Reasons to watch: If you haven't seen anything about the Entebbe hostage crisis
Reasons to avoid: If you have already watched Raid on Entebbe
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: None
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 5.5/10
Director quote - José Padilha: "The screenplay opens up the story to dimensions that had not been explored before and they were incredibly relevant for today's world."
The big question - Did Entebbe actually cause air travel to be safer?
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