Hotel Mumbai

Of all the Die Hard knock-offs we’ve seen over the years, it turns out all we had to do to get the best one was wait for the “true story” version. It’s a very well-directed, taught and tense action movie based on true events in 2008. The international cast is top-notch, doing their best with their action movie archetypes.
The setting, whether it’s sets or locations, feels authentic and carefully designed. The pace is expertly persistent. In so many ways, it feels like a good, old-fashioned action movie. If John McClane was a Sikh. It’s hard to know how accurate it is, and it dramatizes the terrorists and their motives in a way that might be more cinematic than realistic. But it IS a movie – and movies do that. So, I say: kudos and huzzahs to the filmmakers.