Fresh
So gripping and focused that it easily bests Hollywood movies with 50 times its budget.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Assault
Monday 26th December 1994. Marignane Airport.
2011 · 1h 28m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Julien Leclercq
Overview
December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
Director and cast
- Julien Leclercq Director
- Vincent Elbaz as Thierry
- Mélanie Bernier as Carole
- Aymen Saïdi as Yahia
- Philippe Bas as un membre du GIGN
- Antoine Basler as Solignac
- Philippe Cura as Roland Môntins
- Marie Guillard as Claire
- Chems Dahmani as Mustapha
- Jean-Philippe Puymartin as le commandant de bord Bernard Delhemme
- Grégori Derangère as Commandant Denis Favier
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Rotten
In place of emotional stakes, we get gleaming, stylized, occasionally slow-motion violence, filmed in such extreme close-ups and cramped spaces that it's impossible to differentiate gunman and victim.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Brisk and technically efficient, The Assault is a dull film based on a real event that certainly wasn't.
Alison Willmore, AV Club
Rotten
Only the overstylized, near-colorless cinematography offers any shades of gray (actually, nothing but shades of gray); everything else is rendered in the most black-and-white way possible.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh
The Assault is so tense, it seems to pass in a single held breath-so quickly, in fact, that you don't register its narrative flimsiness until later on.
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
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