7 days in Entebbe (2018)

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	Year of first release: 2018
	Director: José Padilha
	Actors: Daniel Brühl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Lior Ashkenazi
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Drama, War
	Conditions of visioning: 23.04.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English/German/Hebrew/French version with German subtitle
Synopsis: In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The group of terrorist is supported by two German idealists, Wilfried Böse (Brühl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Pike). The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After some debate between Yitzhak Rabin (Ashkenazi) and Shimon Peres (Marsan), the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
Review: The story focusses on the one hand on the reaction of two German left extremists. And treats all the Palestinians and Ugandans as Stormtroopers who cannot think much and almost do not exist. On the other hand the movie shows the apparent conflicts within the Israeli government in particular between the rather peaceful Rabin and the warrior Peres. From there on, it was hard to watch this movie seriously as no-propaganda.  José Padilha makes an action movie, genre that he mastered with Tropa de elite in 2007. There is a kind of tension and doubts on the German side. There is a will of revenge à la Tom Clancy on the Israeli side. This brings the expected climax with the successful attack of the Entebbe airport. While Tropa de elite presented realistic doubts in the personality of the policeman as symbol of the justice, the Israeli have no doubt, except the dancer wife of one of the squad members.  I am quite disappointed from the movie. Such good actors, such a conflictual topic, and a very biased script.
Rating: 2 /10