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'7 Days In Entebbe': Sometimes it's better to go to the dentist . . .

Posted by Billy Wonka on March 16, 2018 at 14:30:29:
This film explores two German "revolutionaries" and their idealistic struggle to "make a difference", the ever-changing plight of the hostages, and the tension inside the Israeli cabinet with all the passive-aggressive backbiting from Shimon Peres. (That's the way the writer saw it, anyway.)

The film was well edited flowing between the developing situations inside the Israeli government, military, and the hostages who became guests of Idi Amin (delightfully played by Nonso Anozie). We bounce back and forth between Marsan (Pertz)baiting and busting Rabin's chops and the eventual descension between the Germans and the Arabs. At one point, the Arabs took control and explained to Bruhl that he had no real skin in the game as a German. A final military plan is approved and four C-130's are dispatched to Entebbe. The action sequences are rather brief keeping this on the drama side of the street.

One thing, there was a frenetic, modern dance scene intercut with the action. I'm not sure what the director was trying to accomplish or say but I think it kind of drags down the overall product. May it was Israelofuturism, perhaps?

2.5 wonks for a history lesson, if it was accurate

2 wanks for the dance sequence and casting Bruhl in anything