Good movie, but great story. If you watch it, make sure to watch it through the ending credits, they show actual photos of real operation.




https://www.netflix.com/title/80240537

I watched this last week and really enjoyed it.

It is fast enough to keep ones interest, but slow enough to let the content sink in.

The people that ran this operation had some nerves of steel.

I read that Haley Bennett's character, Yola Reitman, was the key player in that operation. Certainly moreso than Evans' character. A lot of the stuff depicted in the movie actually happened, to one degree or another. Apparently C-130 flights happened several times.

https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Oper...ration-in-Sudan.html

Great article! Thanks

I watched it too and thought it was really great. Highly recommended.

Thanks. I'll probably watch it this weekend.

Overall, not a horrible flick, real history, not sure how much was fictionalized.

- Had a hard time with Chris Evans as a ...Israeli operative
- The liberals undoubtably will pan this as a white savior movie that didn't need to be made
- Haley Bennett flying into Sudan with a low-cut top, unaccompanied...highly unlikely
- Over-use of the term Navy SEALs....particularly over the radio net
- Good to see Greg Kinear
- Haley Bennett

I finally got a chance to watch this. Overall, pretty decent. Worth watching.

As the OP said, good movie, but great real-life story.

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Originally posted by corsair:
- Had a hard time with Chris Evans as a ...Israeli operative

To be fair, he points out when talking about his real mother vs. adopted mother that he was raised in America by a non-Jewish mother, after his European Jewish mother gave him up as baby, in order to ensure his safety when she was refused entry into British Palestine. So he's ethnically Jewish, and traveled to Israel to live once he turned 18, but he's American. (Something that actually came in handy as a Mossad operative, since he could convincingly use an American cover identity, like he does in the film.)

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- Haley Bennett flying into Sudan with a low-cut top, unaccompanied...highly unlikely

The movie does try to show that Sudan at the time they arrived wasn't as strictly Islamic, with the ruling regime then gradually tightening down on Sharia restrictions over the years they were there.

There's a scene about 2/3rds of the way through the film with Greg Kinnear in his office at the embassy listening to the radio broadcast about the new Islamic restrictions that are being implemented, including that women must be accompanied in public and must wear hijab. (So this wasn't a requirement prior to that point.)

He then gets even more outraged when the announcer goes on to say that all alcohol sales would now be prohibited.

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- Over-use of the term Navy SEALs....particularly over the radio net

OMG yes. This was awful. "Our Navy Seals will extract them." "The Navy Seals will infiltrate on an oil freighter." "Radio to base: A Navy Seal has been hit!"

I get that they couldn't use a relatively obscure IDF term like "Shayetet 13". But do people these days not know what "Commando" means? Could they not have just said something generic like "Naval Commandos"? Geez.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I finally got a chance to watch this. Overall, pretty decent. Worth watching.

As the OP said, good movie, but great real-life story.

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Originally posted by corsair:
- Had a hard time with Chris Evans as a ...Israeli operative

To be fair, he points out when talking about his real mother vs. adopted mother that he was raised in America by a non-Jewish mother, after his European Jewish mother gave him up as baby, in order to ensure his safety when she was refused entry into British Palestine. So he's ethnically Jewish, and traveled to Israel to live once he turned 18, but he's American. (Something that actually came in handy as a Mossad operative, since he could convincingly use an American cover identity, like he does in the film.)

I just thought Evans is too much of a pretty boy to be playing the roll. I'm sure there's some attractive Israeli agents just thought the plausibility of him as an actor with the all-American looks, was out of place.

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- Haley Bennett flying into Sudan with a low-cut top, unaccompanied...highly unlikely

The movie does try to show that Sudan at the time they arrived wasn't as strictly Islamic, with the ruling regime then gradually tightening down on Sharia restrictions over the years they were there.

There's a scene about 2/3rds of the way through the film with Greg Kinnear in his office at the embassy listening to the radio broadcast about the new Islamic restrictions that are being implemented, including that women must be accompanied in public and must wear hijab. (So this wasn't a requirement prior to that point.)

He then gets even more outraged when the announcer goes on to say that all alcohol sales would now be prohibited.

Nothing to do with Islamic/Sharia law and more about general culture. Africa in-general is a socially conservative place, Sudan in the mid-80's was no different. The urban areas, you could get away with more revealing or, flattering styles but, traveling outside of those areas, a women is going to go more modest or, more function over fashion & comfort. As for her traveling on her own, again, same thing, while mid-80's solo women traveling became more prevalent, it was unusual especially to rural, undeveloped areas where the inhabitants aren't familiar to such, independence. Nevertheless, its something to pick at...

This looks interesting! Thanks for the heads up I’m gonna watch it tonight.