Reverential to a fault, this documentary celebrates the heroism of the only Israeli officer killed during the 1976 raid on Palestinian terrorists holding 103 hostages at the terminal of the airport in Entebbe, Uganda.
Yet this lofty approach doesn’t give much more than a cursory sense of what Yonathan Netanyahu was like as a person.
This is despite no shortage of talking heads — including the fallen soldier’s brother Benjamin, Israel’s current prime minister, and Shimon Peres, the defense minister at the time of the raid — and lots of home movies and still photos, plus the fallen hero’s letters and poetry, which are read by Marton Csokas.
But while recollections of the participants in the rescue are often riveting, the subject of Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot’s film remains elusively out of grasp.