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.
gurkankrkt
Meh, another propaganda movie :( , in addition it is very dull
Michael Rivera
This movie is the basic hostage rescue sort of movie (someone's captured, authorities make a plan, authorities execute the plan) but it does not play out that efficiently or good. Now, of course this is based off of real events, but for the sake of making a movie things must be altered and trimmed to be made interesting and cinematic-however, this movie seems too interested in showing the least intriguing parts. It's slow and it definitely FEELS slow despite not that long a runtime. Honestly this movie could've cut out a solid half hour of content. The acting is fine and the movie even looks very nice from a technical perspective, but the pacing is so off. Not to mention the most perplexing and unnecessary inclusion of dance scenes-this aspect really frustrated me after the second time, but why would you ruin the whole rescue op with it, after building it up for the whole movie? It didn't even feel pretentious, it just felt like the editor accidentally spliced dance footage into the film. This one's a real mixed bag. Don't go in expecting a cool climax. It's not much of a thriller because it drudges on with superficial politics and it's not much of a drama because there's no emotional investment. Disappointing.
dana_ciurtean
For the fans of movies based on true stories, this is a nice one to watch. Lead actors are doing a good role, it keeps your attention until the end.