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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 58The PlaylistBradley WarrenThe PlaylistBradley WarrenThere is a more polemic, thought-provoking work somewhere in 7 Days in Entebbe, held hostage by its commercial appeal.
- 58The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyLacking both the exploitation-movie claustrophobic urgency of Golan’s "Operation Thunderbolt" and the Irwin Allen-disaster-film factor of the Irvin Kershner-directed NBC version, "Raid On Entebbe," 7 Days instead goes for businesslike professionalism.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWhen all the dust settles, we’re left right where we started, and with nothing to show for it but a fleeting reminder that peace is impossible without negotiation. It’s a lesson that history has failed to teach us, filtered through a movie that doesn’t understand why.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper[A] disappointingly listless thriller, in which at least four of the titular seven days feel like place-holders, with everyone holding their positions and regurgitating the same concerns and regrets and debates.
- 40The GuardianJonathan RomneyThe GuardianJonathan Romney“Surprise and speed is the key,” someone comments at one point; the only surprise is how unspeedy and unsurprising this project turned out to be.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyIt should be a pulse-racing account of knife-edge real-life conflict and valiant heroics, full of needling political questions. Instead it's merely another slack thriller with underdeveloped characters and sputtering dramatic momentum.
- 40VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangA distinct air of staleness permeates the whole enterprise — even the palette is brown as an old biscuit, and Rodrigo Amarante’s minimal score is so politely low in the mix that it’s hardly even there.
- 38Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneThe conflation of historical complexities makes for cheap pathos throughout, complete with weeping mothers and the seemingly endless dredging up of the terrorists' obvious moral equivalence.