The Assault (2010 film)

The Assault is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, 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.

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Cast

Vincent Elbaz as Thierry Prungnaud
Grégori Derangère as Commander Denis Favier
Mélanie Bernier as Carole Jeanton
as Yahia
Chems Dahmani as Mustapha
Djanis Bouzyani as Salim
Marie Guillard as Claire Prungnaud
Naturel Le Ruyet as Emma
Philippe Bas as Didier
Antoine Basler as Solignac
as Roland Môntins
Mohid Abid as Makhlouf
Fatima Adoum as Djida
Hugo Becker as Vincent Leroy
Abdelhafid Metalsi as Ali Touchent
Claire Chazal as News presenter

Reception

, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 53%, based on 145 reviews, with an average score of 5.86/10. 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".