Slack Hostage Drama '7 Days In Entebbe' Never Takes Off
Puzzling editing choices prevent this tale of a hijacked 1976 flight from Tel Aviv to Paris from attaining any real tension or narrative momentum.
by Mark Jenkins
Mar 15, 2018
2 minutes
Jose Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe opens with a galvanizing flurry of activity. But the bustle is not the 1976 airliner hijacking that begins the main story, or the Israeli commando raid that concludes it. The prologue is a modern-dance piece whose relationship to the rest of the movie is puzzlingly tenuous.
Several films have already been and . Another treatment might have been welcome if it focused tightly on some neglected aspect of the event. But the fictionalized barely focuses at all. Even a tight timeline can't keep the movie on track.
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