If youve ever gone through security at Ben Gurion Airport, you know just how seriously Israel takes terrorism.
That last one may be slightly less familiar to some.
But its not for a lack of representation on screens both big and small over the years.
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The hijackers eventually redirected the flight to Entebbe, Uganda.
There, they were greeted like long-lost comrades by the African dictator Idi Amin.
After all, so much could have gone wrong.
Its amazing that so much went right.
Still, the sheer number of lives in danger is hard to ignore.
Each wants to be the hero or at least not the man behind a failure.
The film comes to crackling life during the planning and climactic execution of the raid.
(Its way more artful and way less pretentious than it sounds.)
What gets lost in all the fireworks, though, is a sense of scale moral scale.
This will probably seem admirably even-handed to some and problematically wishy-washy and cowardly to others.
Either way, I wish the film had more of a point of view.
Theres room for nuance, and its underexplored.
Still,7 Days in Entebbeis an effective and undeniably thrilling film.
The mission, of course, is a success.
But this is not a hopeful movie.
How can it be when its central problems are still with us more than 40 years later?
