While this isn't a great film by any stretch, it is a very interesting fictional film based very loosely on a real-life incident. An Albanian living in Greece gets on a bus along with about 20 passengers. Shortly after the bus leaves town, the man reveals that he's got a grenade and an AK-47. He demands 500,000 Euros and some specific guns that the police supposedly know about but the audience viewing the film really doesn't understand. As the film progresses, the reasons for why the hijacking occurred are slowly leaked out through flashbacks. In many ways this seems intended to help explain and justify the hijacker's behaviors. While this is unsettling that they would try to make the viewer like or at least understand such evil behaviors, the writers did a good job of sucking the audience inside his dilemma and giving them some level of empathy.
Excellent writing, direction and realistic acting make this a pretty good film. The only negatives are the presence of too much urinating in the film (yuck) and I was really left wondering about the real story--were the cops the "bad guys" and the kidnapper a frustrated and angry "innocent"?
Excellent writing, direction and realistic acting make this a pretty good film. The only negatives are the presence of too much urinating in the film (yuck) and I was really left wondering about the real story--were the cops the "bad guys" and the kidnapper a frustrated and angry "innocent"?