Amazing look at terrorism

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2018)

This is great film-making, you truly believe you are watching a documentary. The pacing is just right, the action seems real and the performances are wonderful. It is just fascinating to watch. But in this post-9/11 world, it does put this film in a different light. Are we to admire the characters that shoot people in the back and plant bombs in crowded cafes? Ironically, Algeria struggled for many years with its own internal civil war with terrorist groups.