In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot. After 30 hours of tension, a rescue operation is organized.... (Full plot summary below)
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In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot. After 30 hours of tension, a rescue operation is organized.
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| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis movie is a broadly sketched but illuminating depiction of what happens when powerful nations grow weary of sorting through the subtleties of geopolitics and start letting heavily armed secret agents handle diplomacy. |
| The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijWhat we are thus left with is a film that's made with an impressive level of craftsmanship but with exceptionally dubious politics, as if 21st-century moviemaking magic had been let loose on a terribly conservative and hopelessly blinkered 1980s relic of a script. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe action finale, the actual 15 Minutes of War, atones for many of the sins this solid B-picture tallies up until then. |
| VarietyMark KeizerGrivois’ purpose is not to force a conversation about France’s colonial past or a comparison between Africa then and now. As the body count increases in this tense but troublingly context-free drama, he mistakenly believes we’ll gladly put politics aside to revel in the French gift for the kill shot. |
| User ReviewBelieveMeIknowAlmost laughably bad. If you don't mind are ridiculously unrealistic badly thought out scene after scene then you might be okay with it. |
