15 Minutes of War

L'Intervention is a simple but remarkable film. At its heart, is the early genesis of one of the challenging specialisms associated with modern elite fighting units. The other is a story of salvation, trying to save the lives of children under seemingly impossible conditions. This story is engaging from beginning to end. From one point of view its fascinating to see the kind of precisely synchronised military action, depicted in this film. Its also harrowing, hoping that the children held by armed captors can be freed. This is as much a human story as it is a tale of war.. A consideration that's sensitively presented in this film. Acting is excellent and the sense of cinematic tension and drama, that's developed is a credit to all involved including writers, directors and producers. A rather unique film I consider a must watch. 10/10.

The movie is inspired by the 1976 terrorist abduction of a busload of school children by Somali rebels in the French colony of Djibouti. The bus ends up stranded near the Somali border as a group of special ops are called in to take out the terrorists. The film was made interesting by making the special ops more akin to the Expendables with their own swagger music. I will admit this is an incident and country I didn't know existed. It was decently done with some light aspects of humor. Guide; F-word. No sex or nudity.

Its kind of ok , i enjoyed the story and the whole African atmosphere. the acting was bad, and i felt as if all the actors were totally miscasted, i just feel they dont fit in, the teacher and the kids included.

7 for entertainment value, 1 for political premise 15 Minutes of War reminds me of a couple of other war films with similar titles, namely 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, and 12 Strong. Like these films and some others, such as Olympus Has Fallen, or Munich, the film is undeniably entertaining, but simultaneously politically reprehensible for lionizing colonialist/imperialists and caricaturing their victims.

This is not a based on true events movie that has action scenes until the end but it keeps you interested from the beginning with all the drama hapening. Truly recommend it.

Dramatic movie based on fact. Sad and a few comic moments befall decent sat night movie

Love it and everything inside. More kills would be better. But already not bad. Except red head fat guy not credible.

I enjoyed this movie. The acting, production and story is great

A waste of a good story. If the facts of this high risk mission are indeed riveting, this film misses the mark completely with insipid dialogues and inept actors. Cinematography and direction are uninspired as well but what really sinks the movie is the writing, the introduction of the characters is really clunky and formulaic, the pacing has long boring lull for exposition, and again the dialogue are never natural, believable or realistic. The action sequences are the only part of the film that rises to an average level but as the title says it's only a 15 minutes war.

Reading the reviews I was expecting much worse... Solid & realistic action film describing a real event. Probably less explosions and pyrotechnics than in an American film of this genre but it did not take away anything in terms of suspense and drama. The seventies feel and a certain level of amateurism of policing is quite well depicted.