Review – Raid on Entebbe

I loved this movie when I first saw it, the first time it aired or thereabouts. I wanted to grow up to be the James Woods character, the guy who gets the call when things go bad, tosses an Uzi in his suitcase, and goes to work. The whole thing has a strong pro-Israeli slant, but at least in this case they were the good guys, so that’s okay. Some of the action sequences aren’t too shabby, and Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin isn’t to be missed. The rest of the cast includes a parade of familiar faces such as Peter Finch and Charles Bronson. Beyond that, however, this has a strong made-for-TV flavor. Mildly amusing