Red Sea Diving Resort ()

August 1, 2019 4:45 PM

Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.

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posted by oh yeah! (1 comment total)

I watched this last night and tried to get a thread posted, but the imdb url verification step just would not work, and was still being super-glitchy tonight, but it finally went through.

Anyway, I think the negative reviews are pretty accurate - the movie drags after a while, and the focus is so vastly on Ari that the Ethiopian characters are mostly just set dressing. There were glimmers of a good movie in there, it's a good cast and an interesting story, but, it just doesn't work.
posted by oh yeah! at 5:03 PM on August 1, 2019