2011 · drama · action · thriller
The Assault
Directed by Julien Leclercq1h 28m2011
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.
Our read: The Assault (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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