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Featuring both thrilling action and intense drama, Rebellion (2012) tells the real-life story of a French tribe in New Caledonia who attacked a police precinct before taking thirty innocents hostage, as Special Ops officer Captain Philippe Legorjus (director Mathieu Kassovitz) is tasked with freeing them. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of this tense thriller this Monday (26 August), we have Three DVD copies of the film to give away to our valued readership, thanks to Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

In Rebellion, a connection is formed between the Legorjus and lead terrorist Alphonse Dianou (newcomer Iabe Lapacas), but as negotiations become increasingly hostile, it becomes clear that the rebels have nothing to lose and everything to fight for. Against the...

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Rebellion (15)

(Mathieu Kassovitz, 2011, Fra) Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi. 135 mins

Working with a real-life 1980s incident in New Caledonia (not dissimilar to a French Falklands), Kassovitz crafts a thoughtful thriller with no heroes, only good intentions compromised by colonialist mistrust and distant politics. His negotiator is set between a hair-triggered French military and separatist rebels, but with an election back home, not everyone wants a peaceful outcome.

Promised Land (15)

(Gus Van Sant, 2012, Us/UAE) Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand. 107 mins

With fracking as the central concern, this finds it hard to avoid being an "issue movie", but there's some human drama to it. Damon's gas agent comes to an archetypal small town with a buyout in mind, but the locals and their country ways get to him.

Mathieu Kassowitz, as star and director, is front and centre of this account of an unfortunate 1980s French colonial intervention

As director and star, Mathieu Kassovitz applies a grim determination to this gritty true story of a catastrophic military adventure: he takes the movie at what the Sas might call "yomping" pace, and awards himself plenty of closeups looking concerned.

In 1988, France tumbled back into the type of colonial nightmare some remembered in south-east Asia in the 1950s: a horrendously misjudged and disproportionate attempt to reassert control over its tiny island territory New Caledonia in the south-west Pacific. Thirty policemen had been kidnapped by indigenous Kanak separatists, and 300 special forces operatives were flown out from the motherland and sent into the jungle to get the hostages out. Prime minister Jacques Chirac, facing an election battle, needed a clear, patriotic result and was reportedly none too fastidious about how to get it.

Actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz takes charge on both sides of the camera to tell the true story of a 1988 hostage situation that arose on a French colony in the South Pacific. When native Kanak separatists kill four gendarmes and kidnap 30 more on New Caledonia's Ouvea Island, special forces negotiator Captain Philippe Legorjus (Kassovitz) is sent to resolve the situation. But after earning the trust of rebel leader Alphonse Dianou (Iabe Lapacas), Legorjus discovers that his own superiors are more interested in winning elections than a peaceful outcome.