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The Assault
Directed by
Julien Leclercq
R
2012
88m
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6.1
53%
46%
6.0
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Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.
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Cast of The Assault
Vincent Elbaz
Thierry
Grégori Derangère
Denis Favier
Mélanie Bernier
Carole
Aymen Saïdi
Yahia
Chems Dahmani
Mustapha
Mohid Abid
Makhlouf
Djanis Bouzyani
Salim
Marie Guillard
Claire
Naturel Le Ruyet
Emma
Philippe Bas
GIGN Snipper Didier
Philippe Cura
GIGN #1
Grégoire Taulère
GIGN #2
Charlie Costillas
Young GIGN Recruit #1
Ludovic Meacci
Young GIGN Recruit #2
Laurent Paillot
GIGN Administrative
Antoine Basler
Solignac
Louis Arène
Solignac's Assistant
Hugo Becker
Leroy
Hugues Martel
Orsay Cabinet Director
Hervé Dubourjal
Beauvau Cabinet Director
The Assault Ratings & Reviews
IONCINEMA.com
Jordan M. Smith
Based on the real life airliner hijacking that took place on December 24, 1994 in Algiers, director Julien Leclercq's sophomore effort does little more than make you wish you were watching any number of better hostage/terrorist films.
Television Without Pity
Ethan Alter
Curiously lacking in tension.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Exploiting film's visceral, kinetic and pummeling power to the max, this fact-based thriller about the 1994 Algerian terrorist hijacking of a Paris-bound flight is an outstanding achievement in genre entertainment.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
So gripping and focused that it easily bests Hollywood movies with 50 times its budget.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
In place of emotional stakes, we get gleaming, stylized, occasionally slow-motion violence, filmed in such extreme close-ups and cramped spaces that it's impossible to differentiate gunman and victim.
Hollywood & Fine
Marshall Fine
Could have been better, had Leclercq resisted to urge to include the soap operatics ... It's solid - but it should have been gripping.
AV Club
Alison Willmore
Brisk and technically efficient, The Assault is a dull film based on a real event that certainly wasn't.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
The Assault is so tense, it seems to pass in a single held breath-so quickly, in fact, that you don't register its narrative flimsiness until later on.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A tension-filled dramatization of the actual hijacking of a French airbus in December 1994.
Slant Magazine
Robert Tumas
Julien Leclercq's The Assault works hard at finding its human factor, the thread linking the cold-blooded facts of the 1994 hijacking by Muslim extremists of Air France Flight 8969 and the people on the plane.
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