Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

fivish-1 Who ever wrote the start and end captions made up some 'facts'. The facts are well known. It is astonishing that it made it to screen without being corrected. Between the captions is a very poor re-telling of the story which we all know and has been put to film many times a long time ago. Clearly there was a hidden motive behind the film, and its backers were happy to lose money for the propaganda value, little that it was.

westsideschl I have no particular interest in either side - Palestinian or Israeli. So, five stars for the movie itself w/intelligent POVs, as well as confusing POVs. Eight stars because it exposes so many of the one, two & three star reviewers as categorical & conformational bias thinkers. To them all terrorists are bad and those they fight against are all good. So for one time a movie gives a little space to what is in the terrorist mind - thus the backlash. The treatment of Palestinians by Israel is similar to how white Europeans treated Native peoples of the Americas (not to mention Africans brought in as slaves) during the centuries of colonization. A fact check of how the lands of Palestinians have dramatically decreased w/fenced barriers & containment of culture, opportunity, movement, resources, and rights in the past 60 years has some resemblance to the reservations of the Americas. Who is dying? A fact check of the number of Palestinians killed by Israel and Israelis killed by Palestinians since 2000 also shows this imbalance (10,000 to 1200) and growing. Whomever wields the armaments, the monetary & political power will always label as terrorist those who are being slowly strangled as they fight for life, self determination & freedom. The movie closes w/the statement that no peace agreement exists between the two sides. If you have the power then you have the greater potential of creating resolution, but when does power ever want to give any up?

Jaime Gonzales I guess I don't understand the need to insert dance scenes into a movie that is overtly sympathetic to terrorism. It seems that this "take" on actual events is a way for people who agree with terrorists and their methods to demonstrate to the viewer that terrorists are good people.Kill innocent men, women and children? Sure, as long as it is for a politically correct cause. Kill the terrorists who are targeting and killing your civilian population? Those people may not be so good, and people on their side probably deserve to die.Anyone who thinks that the murder of innocent persons is a good thing has a seriously disturbing mental illness.Anyone. Who thinks that. Hitler thought like this. Stalin thought like this. Pol Pot thought like this. Apparently, many in Hollywood think like this.

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.