The film interwove drama with some news clips from the time to very good narrative effect and I learned about the motives of the hostage takers which I was not fully aware of before.
As other reviewers have mentioned the depiction of journalist Kate Adie by Abbie Cornish did not come across well. This may have been down to direction as it seemed to me that there may have been an attempt to impersonate the delivery of Kate Adie and with a focus on this often the meaning and emotion of the words was lost. The SAS also seemed rather like the Sweeney from the U.K. TV series.. Perhaps the SAS are/were like the Sweeney,, I have no personal knowledge of the SAS.
However, the film is worth watching, particularly for the performances of Mark Strong as a negotiating police chief and Ben Turner who plays Salim representing the hostage takers.
As other reviewers have mentioned the depiction of journalist Kate Adie by Abbie Cornish did not come across well. This may have been down to direction as it seemed to me that there may have been an attempt to impersonate the delivery of Kate Adie and with a focus on this often the meaning and emotion of the words was lost. The SAS also seemed rather like the Sweeney from the U.K. TV series.. Perhaps the SAS are/were like the Sweeney,, I have no personal knowledge of the SAS.
However, the film is worth watching, particularly for the performances of Mark Strong as a negotiating police chief and Ben Turner who plays Salim representing the hostage takers.