Tense and real

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2019)

Dear movie freaks, I am back to watch and review movies after having non-watch-any-movies-fasting during 40 days for Easter lent moment, so here I would like to review Hotel Mumbai. The movie is coming to screen in my country Indonesia in the middle of April 2019, near Easter Mass and in coincidence, in the time of Sri Lanka tragedy yesterday (21 April 2019), so after watching this and knowing that the same thing (terrorism) happened in Colombo Sri Lanka, I am quite surprised, sad, and angry. This movie is like to show us the reality of this world is not safe at all. We are under terror in any way, it could be technology or cyber or conventional war. Somebody or any group out there are still planning their actions to any countries. It could be your country, it could be my country. Such horrible thing. In this movie Hotel Mumbai, first of all I want to thank the ideas coming from the writers (John Collee&Anthony Maras). In the film making of course we could thank the Director Anthony Maras and all the actors involved. They really act like real people in that tragedy. To relive and to remake the hard moment of 10 years ago, it needs a lot of hard work, many properties, preparations, and of course deep understanding about the actual event. This movie bring back us to tense and real terrorism action that happened in Hotel Mumbai November 2008. Never forget the victims and their families. In deep respect for this film-making effort, I suggest all film festivals this year to do screening of this movie, because this movie is part to remember the efforts of good and kind-hearted staff, police officers, special forces, and all men who tried their best to help other people around them, especially women, children, old people, disable people, etc. The plot and scenes are so natural that could make the audience to close our eyes, scream, or curse several critical moments. This is not children movie, but if they are getting bigger, they must watch this movie to know from victim's perspective on that event. We could see that the hostages and staffs, they were really united under Humanity. This movie could be part of most-watched movie we could ever have this year and could be standing along with Argo and other tense movies.