The Assault (2010 film)

The Assault
The Assault
	French theatrical release poster
French	L'Assaut
Directed by	Julien Leclercq
Screenplay by	Simon Moutaïrou; Julien Leclercq;
Based on	L'Assaut : GIGN, Marignane, 26 décembre 1994, 17 h 12; by Roland Môntins; Gilles Cauture;
Produced by	Julien Leclercq; Julien Madon;
Starring	Vincent Elbaz; Grégori Derangère; Mélanie Bernier; Aymen Saïdi; Marie Guillard; Chems Dahmani; Djanis Bouzyani; Mohid Abid; Antoine Basler;
Cinematography	Thierry Pouget
Edited by	Mickael Dumontier; Christine Lucas Navarro; Frédéric Thoraval;
Music by	Jean-Jacques Hertz; François Roy;
Production; companies	Labyrinthe Films; Mars Films;
Distributed by	Mars Distribution
Release dates	12 November 2010 (Sarlat Film Festival); 9 March 2011 (France);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$4.6 million
Box office	$4.3 million

The Assault (French: L'Assaut) 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.^[3]

Cast

Vincent Elbaz as Thierry Prungnaud
Grégori Derangère as Commander Denis Favier
Mélanie Bernier as Carole Jeanton
Aymen Saïdi [fr] 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
Philippe Cura [fr] 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

As of June 2020^[update], review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 53%, based on 145 reviews, with an average score of 5.86/10.^[4] 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".^[5]

References

^ "L'Assaut". JP's Box-Office.
^ "L'assaut (The Assault)". Box Office Mojo.
^ The Assault
^ "The Assault (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. 6 April 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
^ "The Assault". Metacritic.

External links

The Assault at IMDb

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[1] "L'Assaut". JP's Box-Office.

[2] "L'assaut (The Assault)". Box Office Mojo.

[3] The Assault

[4] "The Assault (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. 6 April 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2020.

[5] "The Assault". Metacritic.

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