This was a very good thriller in the Hollywood style. By that I mean that they took a story and added lots of very close moments to heighten tension and they succeeded. Yes, the actual history is way off and the Canadians were the heroes, but playing with history has always been the wont of Hollywood directors and story-writers.
The artifices added were obvious: the bru-ha-ha at the market: the segregation at the airport; the last second pick up the phone to save everyone; the car chase along the runway, when if only the cars could have gone faster would the Swiss Air pilot have stopped the plane; the resistance at the Canadian Embassy by two of the people.
But these artifices just added to the tension and improved the film. And that is what Hollywood does with stories.
The artifices added were obvious: the bru-ha-ha at the market: the segregation at the airport; the last second pick up the phone to save everyone; the car chase along the runway, when if only the cars could have gone faster would the Swiss Air pilot have stopped the plane; the resistance at the Canadian Embassy by two of the people.
But these artifices just added to the tension and improved the film. And that is what Hollywood does with stories.