A rough and radical history film about the hijacking of the Air France flight in the late 70s. The story is told mostly out of the perspective of two of the terrorist, who were german and part of the Baader-Meinhof complex. Daniel Brühl plays the leade who more and more questions what is happening and actually realizes they did a mistake. Rosamund Pike plays his partner who uses the mission to prove herself as a radical. Pike plays a german character. Her accent at first is a bit weird but it improves during the film a lot. Generally she delivers a good performance but besides one of her last scenes (the phone scene) she was rather a bit one-dimensional and underused. Daniel Brühl's character is better written and Brühl delivers a fine and thoughtful performance. Eddie Marsan had just one facial expression and tone of voice during the whole film. He can do better. Jose Padilha was delves a fine direction. Especially the mixture with the symbolic dance scenes which served as a metaphor were amazing. You felt a bit bad to associate with the two leads and actuallly feel slight sympathy. Also there were some little lengths. But all in all its a pretty good film with a topic that once again is just as relevant as it was back in 1976....
Review of 7 Days in Entebbe
