It's not a bad film, but there are some gaping holes in the narrative that really don't do it any favors. For example, there was no real fine detail of character painted, I didn't get any sense of connection to the characters, even inner motivation, OK we know the terrorists were motivated by social injustice in their homeland, but who were they as people? It was all a bit superficially portrayed, and there was virtually no sense of how the terrorists interacted with their captives, over 6 days it seems that there should at least have been some interactions between terrorists and hostages. As it stands in this movie, the hostages appeared only as devices to drive the story forward, we didn't know hardly anything about any of them, what they went through, how they felt, whether they tried to do something to help themselves. Same goes for most of the characters, sas too, it was all a bit looking from the outside without any real sense of the human elements of the tragic events...even the hostage who was shot..he was always shown from a safe distance, we knew some facts about his political beliefs but we didn't understand anything about him because it wasn't shown. And the ending, what were the terrorists doing during that 5 minute long entry sequence when the soldiers were coming in? There was nothing at all from their perspective, were they threatening hostages? Trying to kill them? Running scared? There was a gaping hole here as everything focused only on the sas raid. Overall a quite entertaining but very thinly drawn sketch of the situation, which feels like a missed opportunity to show some compelling human drama.
Review of 6 Days
