Movie Review: '7 Days in Entebbe'
On July 3, 2018, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Amblin Partners released 7 Days in Entebbe, a taut but somewhat offbeat dramatization of the hijacking of Air France jet by a team of pro-Palestinian terrorists, its journey from Tel Aviv to Entebbe – a city in Uganda – and the events that led to one of history’s most daring rescue missions: Operation Thunderbolt, aka Operation Entebbe. Wilfried Böse: We don't want to hurt anybody. We're humanitarians. Written by Gregory Burke ( ’71 ) and helmed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha ( Elite Squad; the 2014 remake of Robocop ), this Focus Features film – released in the UK as Entebbe – premiered in theaters in March of 2018 and stars German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl and Rosamunde Pike as Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, the two German hijackers who helped two Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) operatives commandeer Air France Flight 139 and, after a roundabout jo...