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Sometimes its good when a filmmaker has a Big Idea.
And sometimes Big Ideas are not so good.
The one that shapes Jose Padilhas7 Days in Entebbeis a lulu of the other kind.
The red-haired woman is having difficulty with the number and strongly considers giving up dancing.
What is Padilha trying to demonstrate?
I confess I dont entirely know, which is one of the problems.
I have theories based on the rest of the movie.
But once the plane is commandeered (with relatively little violence), Wilfried has sad second thoughts.
Germans killing Jews, he says to Brigitte.
Have you thought of that?
Apparently he only just has.
It falls to Brigitte to remind Wilfried why they devised the hijacking but even she is plainly losing heart.
Face it, theyre nice people.
The argument put forth by Peres is that Israelis dont negotiate, period, full stop.
(Those seven days are marked by large red titles, and they go by slowly.)
But dont expect suspense or clarity when the team hits the ground in Entebbe.
You cant follow what the Israelis are doing with all that dancing.
Russell can express two or three conflicting emotions at once, all while following her characters Soviet training.
Pike isnt in the same league.
She freezes and holds her position.
