Not a true story, but INSPIRED by a true story of a hostage taking of a schoolbus of French school children by African terrorists.
The bad: this movie takes some time to get really suspenseful, but your patience will be rewarded because this story gets more and more vicious and thrilling towards the end.
More bad: the acting performances are solid, but not extraordinary, which is why I only rate it with 7 stars.
It's a solid war movie about snipers trying to kill terrorists, but it doesnt go places other movies havent gone before as well, although the French do know how to give this story more humanlike characters than one would see in the usual American war movie.
The good: this is one heck of a slowburning, suspenseful sniper movie, with a very long build up BEFORE the actual shooting starts, but that long pause before the storm, only ENHANCES the SUSPENSE.
The bad: this movie takes some time to get really suspenseful, but your patience will be rewarded because this story gets more and more vicious and thrilling towards the end.
More bad: the acting performances are solid, but not extraordinary, which is why I only rate it with 7 stars.
It's a solid war movie about snipers trying to kill terrorists, but it doesnt go places other movies havent gone before as well, although the French do know how to give this story more humanlike characters than one would see in the usual American war movie.
The good: this is one heck of a slowburning, suspenseful sniper movie, with a very long build up BEFORE the actual shooting starts, but that long pause before the storm, only ENHANCES the SUSPENSE.