6 Days
Jamie Bell (Snowpiercer), Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) and Mark Strong (Kingsman: The Secret Service) lead this crime thriller based on the 1980 takeover of the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London. From director Toa Fraser and writer Glenn Standring, who worked together previously on The Dead Lands.
- Director:
- Toa Fraser ('The Dead Lands', 'Giselle', 'Dean Spanley', 'No. 2')
- Writer:
- Glenn Standring
- Cast:
- Mark StrongJamie BellAbbie CornishEmun ElliottMartin ShawXavier HoranRyan O'KaneSimon Elrahi
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksNZ playwright turned movie director Toa Fraser keeps things tight, ratcheting up the tension gradually in this tense drama, closely based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London. There’s a solid cast all playing real people - Jamie Bell as SAS officer Rusty Firmin, Mark Strong as hostage negotiator Max Vernon, the late Tim Pigott-Smith as politician William Whitelaw, Martin Shaw as Police commander John Dellow, and Abbie Cornish as young BBC correspondant Kate Adie, reporting on her first big story.
Docu-drama about a terrorist hostage situation in London in 1980
The film tells the story pretty straight and doesn't pull any surprises. It is most successful in its portrayal of the terrorist leader as he tries to control what is going on in the Embassy and his negotiations with Max Vernon. It's least successful part is trying to humanize the SAS. It focuses on Lance Corporal Rusty Firmin as the SAS plan and train for...
Variety
pressShot and styled in contemporary, ticking-clock action fashion, it compresses the complex Thatcher-era politics of its fractious standoff into a simplified West-versus-Middle-East conflict that registers as broadly topical.
The New York Times
pressWith a barrage of title-card identifications, "6 Days" can feel closer to a re-enactment than a thriller. To the extent that the movie has a political angle, it's perhaps gratuitously jingoistic.
Stuff
pressJamie Bell might get all the action scenes and top billing, but the true star of Kiwi director Toa Fraser's based-on-fact drama is Mark Strong.
Stuff
pressInformative and well-executed, but lacking the requisite exhilaration that such life-and-death situations usually deliver.
Radio New Zealand
pressBased on – and honouring – first-person testimonies of those present, 6 Days delivers viewers the passion and adrenaline of a mission: impossible.
Newsroom
pressIt may lack some of the edges of the usual of its fare, but that's a good thing here...
Los Angeles Times
pressA stiffly executed re-creation of the events surrounding the 1980 hostage-taking attack on London's Iranian Embassy that packs all the high-stakes intrigue of a filed police report.
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksNZ playwright turned movie director Toa Fraser keeps things tight, ratcheting up the tension gradually in this tense drama, closely based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London. There’s a solid cast all playing real people - Jamie Bell as SAS officer Rusty Firmin, Mark Strong as hostage negotiator Max Vernon, the late Tim Pigott-Smith as politician William Whitelaw, Martin Shaw as Police commander John Dellow, and Abbie Cornish as young BBC correspondant Kate Adie, reporting on her first big story.
Variety
pressShot and styled in contemporary, ticking-clock action fashion, it compresses the complex Thatcher-era politics of its fractious standoff into a simplified West-versus-Middle-East conflict that registers as broadly topical.
The New York Times
pressWith a barrage of title-card identifications, "6 Days" can feel closer to a re-enactment than a thriller. To the extent that the movie has a political angle, it's perhaps gratuitously jingoistic.
Stuff
pressJamie Bell might get all the action scenes and top billing, but the true star of Kiwi director Toa Fraser's based-on-fact drama is Mark Strong.
Stuff
pressInformative and well-executed, but lacking the requisite exhilaration that such life-and-death situations usually deliver.
Radio New Zealand
pressBased on – and honouring – first-person testimonies of those present, 6 Days delivers viewers the passion and adrenaline of a mission: impossible.
Newsroom
pressIt may lack some of the edges of the usual of its fare, but that's a good thing here...
Los Angeles Times
pressA stiffly executed re-creation of the events surrounding the 1980 hostage-taking attack on London's Iranian Embassy that packs all the high-stakes intrigue of a filed police report.
Docu-drama about a terrorist hostage situation in London in 1980
The film tells the story pretty straight and doesn't pull any surprises. It is most successful in its portrayal of the terrorist leader as he tries to control what is going on in the Embassy and his negotiations with Max Vernon. It's least successful part is trying to humanize the SAS. It focuses on Lance Corporal Rusty Firmin as the SAS plan and train...
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