Stars: Chris Evans, Alessandro Nivola, Mbulelo Grootboom, Sizo Mahlangu, Michael Kenneth Williams, Masasa Mbangeni, Setlhabi Jacob Taunyane, Ditebogo Ledwaba, Motsi Tekateka, Yossi Vasa, Greg Kinnear | Written and Directed by Gideon Raff
The Red Sea Diving Resort, directed by Gideon Raff, is the latest feature from streaming service Netflix with little to no fanfare and often arrives dead on arrival. It stars Chris Evans as Ari Levinson, an undercover Israeli operative who smuggles displaced refugees and with a team gets them to safety. On paper, The Red Sea Diving Resort is a mixture between Blood Diamond and Entebbe. The two comparable films run incredibly similar sequences of suspense and narrative threads, albeit far better executed than this sub-par Chris Evans vehicle.
Gideon Raff’s film is not lousy per se; best described merely as weak. The narrative by Raff – who also writes as well as directs this feature – has an exciting tale to tell.
The Red Sea Diving Resort, directed by Gideon Raff, is the latest feature from streaming service Netflix with little to no fanfare and often arrives dead on arrival. It stars Chris Evans as Ari Levinson, an undercover Israeli operative who smuggles displaced refugees and with a team gets them to safety. On paper, The Red Sea Diving Resort is a mixture between Blood Diamond and Entebbe. The two comparable films run incredibly similar sequences of suspense and narrative threads, albeit far better executed than this sub-par Chris Evans vehicle.
Gideon Raff’s film is not lousy per se; best described merely as weak. The narrative by Raff – who also writes as well as directs this feature – has an exciting tale to tell.
- 8/2/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Patrick Sproull Aug 2, 2019
Chris Evans’ first post-Marvel venture – the bland historical thriller, The Red Sea Diving Resort – is now available on Netflix…
For Gideon Raff’s thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, now streaming on Netflix, the writing is on the wall from the get-go. Opening in the early 1980s, in rural Ethiopia, we find a group of Mossad agents shepherding a handful of Ethiopian Jews out of the country and to the perceived safety of Jerusalem. As the truck prepares to leave, one agent, Ari Levinson, realizes there’s a child missing and sprints back through the fields to rescue an oblivious young boy. It’s a moment of bravado that tells you exactly the kind of film The Red Sea Diving Resort intends to be.
Based on true events, The Red Sea Diving Resort dramatizes the plight of Ethiopian Jews attempting to flee their country to Israel.
Chris Evans’ first post-Marvel venture – the bland historical thriller, The Red Sea Diving Resort – is now available on Netflix…
For Gideon Raff’s thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, now streaming on Netflix, the writing is on the wall from the get-go. Opening in the early 1980s, in rural Ethiopia, we find a group of Mossad agents shepherding a handful of Ethiopian Jews out of the country and to the perceived safety of Jerusalem. As the truck prepares to leave, one agent, Ari Levinson, realizes there’s a child missing and sprints back through the fields to rescue an oblivious young boy. It’s a moment of bravado that tells you exactly the kind of film The Red Sea Diving Resort intends to be.
Based on true events, The Red Sea Diving Resort dramatizes the plight of Ethiopian Jews attempting to flee their country to Israel.
- 8/2/2019
- Den of Geek
In the early 1980s, a clandestine unit of Mossad agents bought and reopened a deserted beach resort on the shores of war-torn Sudan, and used it as a cover through which to smuggle thousands of persecuted Ethiopian Jews to the safety of Jerusalem. When this story was declassified a few years ago, it made for a remarkable new chapter in the history of the Jewish diaspora — one that hinges on ancient Hebraic themes of exile, the divine value of a single human life, and the pursuit of a promised land where all of God’s people might live in peace.
Now that it’s been adapted to the screen as a generic Netflix thriller that emphasizes Israeli heroism over Ethiopian suffering (not to mention the bravery required for them to leave their homes and reach the coast), this story only makes for a dull footnote to the history of white savior movies.
Now that it’s been adapted to the screen as a generic Netflix thriller that emphasizes Israeli heroism over Ethiopian suffering (not to mention the bravery required for them to leave their homes and reach the coast), this story only makes for a dull footnote to the history of white savior movies.
- 7/30/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“There’s so much to see and do in Arous,” read the brochure for a Sudanese vacation spot where visitors could go scuba diving amid reefs “made famous by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Hans Hass.” Never mind that Sudan was in a state of civil war and no place for tourists in the early 1980s. European tourists came anyway, oblivious to the fact that the exotic getaway — rechristened “The Red Sea Diving Resort” for the Netflix film of the same name — was a front for a Mossad-run rescue mission: Israeli agents used Arous to smuggle Ethiopian Jews out of refugee camps to the coast, where offshore boats could ferry them to Jerusalem.
The true story of this operation is so wild you couldn’t make it up — the kind of recently declassified real-life operation that savvy producers could conceivably pitch as a cross between Ben Affleck’s “Argo” and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich.
The true story of this operation is so wild you couldn’t make it up — the kind of recently declassified real-life operation that savvy producers could conceivably pitch as a cross between Ben Affleck’s “Argo” and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich.
- 7/29/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix's The Red Sea Diving Resort follows a group of international agents who try to smuggle Jewish-Ethiopians to safety.
Netflix released the trailer for its latest history drama on Wednesday morning.
On the brink of a revolutionary war, members of the Ethiopian government have mobilized to kill of hundreds of Jewish-Ethiopians.
Innocent families and civilians only add to the body count, and a group of agents and brave locals, spearheaded by Chris Evans' Ari Levinson, try to end the killings.
The team of international agents, including Haley Bennett's Rachel Reiter, traverse the Red Sea, direct refugees ...
Netflix released the trailer for its latest history drama on Wednesday morning.
On the brink of a revolutionary war, members of the Ethiopian government have mobilized to kill of hundreds of Jewish-Ethiopians.
Innocent families and civilians only add to the body count, and a group of agents and brave locals, spearheaded by Chris Evans' Ari Levinson, try to end the killings.
The team of international agents, including Haley Bennett's Rachel Reiter, traverse the Red Sea, direct refugees ...
- 7/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix's The Red Sea Diving Resort follows a group of international agents who try to smuggle Jewish Ethiopians to safety.
Netflix released the trailer for its latest history drama Wednesday morning.
On the brink of a revolutionary war, members of the Ethiopian government have mobilized to kill hundreds of Jewish Ethiopians.
Innocent families and civilians only add to the body count, and a group of agents and brave locals, spearheaded by Chris Evans' Ari Levinson, try to end the killings.
The team of international agents, including Haley Bennett's Rachel Reiter, traverse the Red Sea, direct refugees ...
Netflix released the trailer for its latest history drama Wednesday morning.
On the brink of a revolutionary war, members of the Ethiopian government have mobilized to kill hundreds of Jewish Ethiopians.
Innocent families and civilians only add to the body count, and a group of agents and brave locals, spearheaded by Chris Evans' Ari Levinson, try to end the killings.
The team of international agents, including Haley Bennett's Rachel Reiter, traverse the Red Sea, direct refugees ...
- 7/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has launched a new trailer for ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ which is inspired by a true-life rescue mission and starring Chris Evans with no sign of ‘American’s Ass’.
The cast also includes Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley.
Also in trailers – First UK trailer for ‘Farming’ arrives
The film hits Netflix on July 31st
The Red Sea Diving Resort Synopsis
Inspired by remarkable true-life rescue missions, the film is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The undercover team carrying out this mission is led by the charismatic Ari Levinson (Chris Evans) and courageous local Kabede Bimro (Michael Kenneth Williams).
The post Chris Evans stars in thrilling new trailer for ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort...
The cast also includes Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley.
Also in trailers – First UK trailer for ‘Farming’ arrives
The film hits Netflix on July 31st
The Red Sea Diving Resort Synopsis
Inspired by remarkable true-life rescue missions, the film is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The undercover team carrying out this mission is led by the charismatic Ari Levinson (Chris Evans) and courageous local Kabede Bimro (Michael Kenneth Williams).
The post Chris Evans stars in thrilling new trailer for ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort...
- 7/17/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kirsten Howard Jul 17, 2019
Chris Evans and Ben Kingsley star in the new '80s-set Netflix drama.
Chris Evans' post-McU career is now underway and a new film starring the former Captain America will hit Netflix later this month.
Homeland's Gideon Raff wades back into feature-length territory for The Red Sea Diving Resort, a biographical drama that Fox Searchlight bought the rights to all the way back in 2015. Production began in 2017, but the film sort of disappeared for a while, re-emerging in the first months of 2019 when Netflix acquired the distribution rights. You can certainly understand the thinking there, as a predictable post-Endgame slump along with a general yearning for more Evans content could well have been a factor in the decision-making process behind snapping up The Red Sea Diving Resort.
Here's a synopsis of the movie from Netflix:
"Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, The Red...
Chris Evans and Ben Kingsley star in the new '80s-set Netflix drama.
Chris Evans' post-McU career is now underway and a new film starring the former Captain America will hit Netflix later this month.
Homeland's Gideon Raff wades back into feature-length territory for The Red Sea Diving Resort, a biographical drama that Fox Searchlight bought the rights to all the way back in 2015. Production began in 2017, but the film sort of disappeared for a while, re-emerging in the first months of 2019 when Netflix acquired the distribution rights. You can certainly understand the thinking there, as a predictable post-Endgame slump along with a general yearning for more Evans content could well have been a factor in the decision-making process behind snapping up The Red Sea Diving Resort.
Here's a synopsis of the movie from Netflix:
"Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, The Red...
- 7/17/2019
- Den of Geek
• Chris Pine is set to narrate the high-school debate documentary, This Is Not A Club. Ari Levinson is directing the film, which tracks four debate teams over the course of a year as they compete in two-person speech competitions and, eventually, the annual National Speech and Debate tournament in Las Vegas. [Deadline] • Ewan McGregor will lend his voice as narrator of Humpback Whales. Greg MacGillivray is directing the underwater, 3D documentary for IMAX and giant-screen theaters. It follows humpback whales in their slow recovery after nearly being hunted to extinction. Stephen Judson is writing and editing. Expect it to hit theaters Feb.
- 12/11/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Star Trek’s Chris Pine is beaming his voice into high school debate documentary This Is Not A Club, the coming-of-age film about high schoolers performing in two-person speech competitions leading up to the annual National Speech and Debate tournament in Las Vegas.
Pine will narrate the indie documentary feature, which is directed by Ari Levinson and produced by Erica Dasher (Jane By Design) and Sami Kriegstein. Dasher and Kriegstein filmed footage themselves over the course of 12 months in seven states, capturing the highs and lows in the lives of their teenage subjects – four teams of two each – who grapple with issues from sexual identity, race and gender, parental pressures, and falling in love while competing in the world of “Duo” performance, in which partners cannot touch, make eye contact, use props or wear costumes.
Filmmakers showed Pine a cut of This Is Not A Club and brought him...
Pine will narrate the indie documentary feature, which is directed by Ari Levinson and produced by Erica Dasher (Jane By Design) and Sami Kriegstein. Dasher and Kriegstein filmed footage themselves over the course of 12 months in seven states, capturing the highs and lows in the lives of their teenage subjects – four teams of two each – who grapple with issues from sexual identity, race and gender, parental pressures, and falling in love while competing in the world of “Duo” performance, in which partners cannot touch, make eye contact, use props or wear costumes.
Filmmakers showed Pine a cut of This Is Not A Club and brought him...
- 12/11/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
With Anchor Bay Films’ psychological rape/revenge feature Girls Against Boys opening theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on February 1st, we conducted a lengthy interview with the flick’s acclaimed writer and director, Austin Chick.
Girls Against Boys (review here), which lands on Blu-ray and DVD on February 26th, stars Danielle Panabaker (2009’s Friday the 13th ), Nicole Laliberte (“Dexter”), Liam Aiken (Road to Perdition), Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), and Andrew Howard (2010’s I Spit On Your Grave) in a film which revolves around the character of Shae (Panabaker), a naïve New York college student, who, after being tormented by several men in a matter of days, reaches her breaking point and is drawn into co-worker Lu’s (Laliberte) twisted plan for revenge.
Filmmaker Chick chatted with us at length regarding the production. Dig in!
Dread Central: In ways the film seems the offspring of Baise-moi and Fight Club, although with a more languid,...
Girls Against Boys (review here), which lands on Blu-ray and DVD on February 26th, stars Danielle Panabaker (2009’s Friday the 13th ), Nicole Laliberte (“Dexter”), Liam Aiken (Road to Perdition), Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), and Andrew Howard (2010’s I Spit On Your Grave) in a film which revolves around the character of Shae (Panabaker), a naïve New York college student, who, after being tormented by several men in a matter of days, reaches her breaking point and is drawn into co-worker Lu’s (Laliberte) twisted plan for revenge.
Filmmaker Chick chatted with us at length regarding the production. Dig in!
Dread Central: In ways the film seems the offspring of Baise-moi and Fight Club, although with a more languid,...
- 1/12/2013
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
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