6 Days

This film tells the story of the terrorist siege of the Iranian embassy back in 1980. The British government does everything they can to resolve the situation in six days.

The film wastes no time and begins with the siege. It maintains tension and urgency throughout the film, and time flies quickly. It is not easy to be the negotiator in this intense and fragile situation, and Mark Strong portrays the tough challenges very well. It is sad that he has to tell lies at the end. The ending is very intense. I enjoyed watching "6 Days".

Very good retelling of the story with realistic costuming and set up. Overall a highly diverting way to spend ninety minutes.

The only thing that really annoyed me was the casting of Abbie Cornish as Kate Adie, complete with the what could be the worst British accent ever devoted to film. Did someone owe her a favour? Surely there was a massive group of English actresses to choose from and unfortunately every scene in which she turns up just becomes (unintentionally) hilarious. Like a mix between Dame Edna and Jaja Binks.

Get past that though and you have an intense, well thought out film with a great case. Recommended.

I never noticed as some here have said, that, this was a low budget movie.Not that it shows anywhere. The actors - Cornish, Bell and always delivering a GREAT performance - Mark Strong. I have never seen Strong give a bad performance on screen - most know him from the Kingsmen. Some may say the Iranian embassy situation marked the beginning of international based terrorism for England,although in the past the country had many domestic situations of a dire nature - the IRA and their campaign.. I watch closely for technical details got right - or more often - WRONG - this movie gets it right - at least for the layman like most of us are.I have a friend who was S.A.S - he pointed out more - humorously - but he gave this film a thumbs up. So, when a real life hero I am privileged to know, who has lived these types of things says the movie is good - WATCH IT!

I cannot for the life of me understand why the silly accent of Abbie Cornish was not edited out, anything would have been less of a killer during moments of tension than that silly forced accent. The film makers couldn't get a british actress apparently?

Totally ruins the tension with her plumby narration at intense parts. Poorly conceived. The films' quite good, and I know Cornish is an excellent actress, but shoot the director please (in a non-violent way)..

An overall decent movie based on more or less real life. However the reporter from BBC witch was just horribly acted out somewhst ruined it for me. Every time she spoke i just seemed to think i could do a better job myself. Just terrible. I did not ruin the entire movie for me, as others have noted, however this could be an 8/10 and her acting alone took it down to a 6/10. Also i dont seem to feel any emotional attachment to the characters. This points to a weak depiction of the real life events or there was not enough effort made to tell the story about the different perspectives of each side. The ending where the negotiator talks to his wife is simply sloppy and it ends of on a bad note for me.

Could have been GREAT, was MEH.