Movie review for the day

Rico says he watched The Assault, a French-made (and fortunately subtitled) movie about the Air France hijacking in 1994. It stars, of course, a bunch of Frenchmen and -women we've never heard of, but was a nicely-paced drama about taking down the jihadi hijackers. (Though why the GIGN was still queer for revolvers, Rico will never know; maybe because the French don't make a nice pistol like the Glock that everybody else uses...)

So, how did it turn out? The GIGN got in, but then couldn't kill the two hijackers who were in the cockpit for what seemed like forever... Without flash-bang grenades (first developed by the British Army's SAS in the 1960s) or gas, and without armor-piercing rounds in their rifles, and using those anemic revolvers, they were forced to shoot it out through the open cockpit door (amazingly, not hitting the pilot or co-pilot in the process). The commando leader took eight rounds, but lived... In the end, none of the hostages were killed, all the hijackers were, and the GIGN had nine wounded. To use an appropriate, if pseudo-French, phrase, a real fuque de clusteur.