The Assault (2010 film)

The Assault
Film poster
L'Assaut
Directed by Julien Leclercq
Produced by
  • Julien Leclercq
  • Julien Madon
Screenplay by
  • Julien Leclercq
  • Simon Moutaïrou
Based on
L'Assaut : GIGN, Marignane, 26 décembre 1994, 17 h 12
by
  • Roland Môntins
  • Gilles Cauture
Starring
Music by
  • Jean-Jacques Hertz
  • François Roy
Cinematography Thierry Pouget
Edited by
  • Mickael Dumontier
  • Christine Lucas Navarro
  • Frédéric Thoraval
Distributed by Mars Films
Release date
  • 12 November 2010 (2010-11-12) (Sarlat Film Festival)
  • 9 March 2011 (2011-03-09) (France)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country France
Language French
Budget €4.1 million[1]
Box office $4.3 million[2]

The Assault (original title: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French film based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie.[3] It was directed by Julien Leclercq.

Cast

The premiere of the film

Reception

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 57%, based on 14 reviews, with an average score of 5.9/10.[4] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 55, based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]

References

  1. ↑ "L'Assaut". JP's Box-Office.
  2. ↑ "L'assaut (The Assault)". Box Office Mojo.
  3. ↑ The Assault
  4. ↑ "The Assault (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  5. ↑ "The Assault". Metacritic.


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