Given it just opened today, I suspect it will take a couple days to get an answer. That said, several times the movie reverts to a very interesting dance scene. Anyone have any information/observations on this?
BTW, its a great history lesson.
I remember back in the '70s, TWO (count 'em, TWO!) movies about the raid came out almost immediately after it happened. IIRC, one starred Richard Dreyfus as Jonathan, the other had an ensemble cast with Peter Finch and Elizabeth Taylor.
The reviewer on TV said they were both bringing down the house in Israeli cinemas. I wonder how this film is going to stand up.
My guess that it was supposed to be the Batsheva Dance Company.
It’s not supposed to be, it was them.
The lead actor, Daniel Brühl, has been turning up everywhere lately. The Alienist, I just re-watched Captain America: Civil War, turned on The Cloverfield Paradox the other day and there he was. I checked imdb and he’s been steadily working for a while.
Anyone actually seen this yet?
Given the generally bad reviews, I’ll probably watch this one at home, eventually. I’d would like to see how Lior Ashkenzi (a very talented Israeli actor) does Yitzhak Rabin.
As a movie, it was not all that good. As a history lesson is was very good. Assuming it didn’t stray too far from reality, it was more a documentary.
I was a bit surprised by the way they portrayed his and Peres’ relationship. It implied Peres was the more militant.
It actually has Rabin say to him, “If we refuse to negotiate with them[the PLO] this war will never end!”
I found that a bit implausible.
this movie review from the Jerusalem Post says that the movie distorts history , and is also a distortion of basic morality.
Based on that review, I won’t be watching it.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of this.
This is a film about the Raid on Entebbe, and there is a Dance Scene? 
To paraphrase Tom Hanks: “There’s no dancing in hostage situations!”
I haven’t seen the movie, but will just share an amusing scene from the 1976 movie Raid on Entebbe.
James Woods plays one of the commandos picked for the raid. He gets the call to show up for his orders. He starts packing his suitcase with his clothes, Uzi, etc.
Larry Gelman plays his father, who when he sees him packing asks him where he’s going, gets the response ‘Fishing.’
Dad, who obviously knows his elite commando son gets orders to all kinds of things he can’t talk about, after a slight, knowing, pregnant pause, says, “Don’t fall in.”
I can’t spend seven days on a movie, you got anything that runs about ninety minutes?
I suggest you avoid the wedding scene in The Deer Hunter then.
The review I read said the ending is horrible. I don’t know the ending, so I don’t know what the reviewer is referring to, but he seemed genuinely offended.
In the actual raid, as I recall,
the only casualty was Jonathan, the leader, who was sniped as the Israelis were getting away. What had been Operation THUNDERBOLT up to that point was renamed Operation JONATHAN. Also, the old woman who had been taken away to hospital (her name was Dora Bloch) was never seen again and presumably died a hideous death at the orders of Idi Amin.
I’m talking about the end of the movie, not the end of the actual raid.
They’re different? 
There’s a giant pie fight in the war room.
Remember, before Peres was a peacenik, he was the father of the Israeli nuclear program, not to mention one of the people behind the British-French-Israeli agreement that led to the Suez Crisis. While Rabin was the emotional, introspective career soldier, Peres was the clear-eyed idealist - which, of course, made him much more devious and merciless.
And…
Jonathan (Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu) was the older brother of current Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.