Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl star in this thought-provoking drama about the Entebbe crisis that falls at the last hurdle LIAM DANIEL★★☆☆☆The curse of Entebbe strikes again. The real-life hostage crisis from 1976 — an Air France flight from Tel Aviv was hijacked and diverted to Entebbe in Uganda — inspired, less than a year after the actual event, two competing and egregious TV movies, Raid on Entebbe and Victory at Entebbe. The latter featured Anthony Hopkins as Yitzhak Rabin and Burt Lancaster as Shimon Peres — the mind boggles. Now, with the benefit of political and cultural hindsight, we get another crack at Entebbe, this time from José Padilha, the accomplished Brazilian film-maker behind TV’s Narcos and the award-winning cop flick Elite Squad. The film features a fantastically unhinged performance from Rosamund Pike as Brigitte Kuhlmann, one…

Source: The Times February 20, 2018 00:00 UTC