Synopsis
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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Cast
- Rosamund PikeBrigitte Kuhlmann
- Daniel BrühlWilfried Böse
- Eddie MarsanShimon Peres
- Lior AshkenaziPrime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Nonso AnozieIdi Amin
- Ben SchnetzerZeev Hirsch
- Andrea DeckPatricia Martel
- Denis MénochetJacques Le Moine
- Angel BonanniLt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu
- Juan Pablo RabaJuan Pablo
Recommendations
- 65
TheWrap
The ultimate success of 7 Days in Entebbe varies from scene to scene, and even more from actor to actor. - 60
Screen Daily
Although much of the film is effectively claustrophobic, it is too bogged down by exposition to fully take off. - 58
The Playlist
There is a more polemic, thought-provoking work somewhere in 7 Days in Entebbe, held hostage by its commercial appeal. - 58
The A.V. Club
Lacking both the exploitation-movie claustrophobic urgency of Golan’s "Operation Thunderbolt" and the Irwin Allen-disaster-film factor of the Irvin Kershner-directed NBC version, "Raid On Entebbe," 7 Days instead goes for businesslike professionalism. - 50
IndieWire
When all the dust settles, we’re left right where we started, and with nothing to show for it but a fleeting reminder that peace is impossible without negotiation. It’s a lesson that history has failed to teach us, filtered through a movie that doesn’t understand why. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
[A] disappointingly listless thriller, in which at least four of the titular seven days feel like place-holders, with everyone holding their positions and regurgitating the same concerns and regrets and debates. - 40
The Guardian
“Surprise and speed is the key,” someone comments at one point; the only surprise is how unspeedy and unsurprising this project turned out to be. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
It should be a pulse-racing account of knife-edge real-life conflict and valiant heroics, full of needling political questions. Instead it's merely another slack thriller with underdeveloped characters and sputtering dramatic momentum.
