I had a great time watching this movie. Honestly don't know what all the hate is about. Critic score is massively too harsh and once again imo just critics trying to get some attention. Was a solid telling of events and I thought the direction and acting were also solid. Few niggles but nothing crazy. Highly recommend this. Watch it!

Hollywood has got us used to huge, sky-high budget blockbusters with awesome stars, explosions, stunning stunts (pun intended), fine CGI, gruesome villains and ultimate triumph of the Good over any foreseeable Evil. Meh, but ain't we a bit too tired and fed up with those? British and New Zealand team made something much, much deeper, much better and captivating - 6 Days, a 1980 Iranian Embassy hostage crisis-based movie with not-so-seemingly-stellar cast, but still, with such awesome actors as Jamie Bell as Rusty Firmin, Abbie Cornish as Kate Adie, Mark Strong as Max Vernon, Martin Shaw as Dellow, as well as some others. THey managed to deliver a much quieter, deeper psychological thriller shot as a real docudrama, excellent and impeccable in its precise execution. I do recommend this strong film and say - don't buy some hateful reviews, 6 Days made a very good job.

Movie is done badly. Movie suffers from serious lack of personal experience, you can't see agony of the hostages and this situation was for sure very stressful. For me this movie is tribute to that reporter, negotiator and M Tacher. Movie failed in transferring some kind of emotion to me, I almost forgot the kidnappers were holding hostages. It would be better they made a documentary with all those facts and thats it. This was very basic and dry view of what was going in the ambassy during 6 days. It was 6 days drama, they could use that better when they already decided to film this movie. Still watchable, if you decide to watch it you wan't make a big mistake.

Not a bad movie. Not a strong story that keeps you hanging on but that isn't the films fault since it is telling a story so many of us in the UK will already know relatively well. What it does highlight is how poorly thought out our idea of responding to terrorism was back then, and also how much pure luck the SAS had since the operation to assault the embassy is a complete shambles in this movie - i mean seriously (spoilers) once you've detonated the roof explosive, if the terrorists were even half ready the hostages would already be dead by the time the SAS had gotten in to the building. I just hope they improved a heck of a lot since this event as all this did was make me lose all confidence they could rescue anyone with todays terrorists around. Mark Strong, he's always good. He's the kind of reliable actor that might not own the show but gives a performance every time that helps bring stability. Jamie is good too. I'm not persuaded he looks the part at all in this, but he does the job even if he's not quite right in terms of casting. The actress playing Kate Aide was a casting disaster though. So, overall a story most of us know, the SAS mystique debunked (they were bloody lucky) no cliff hangers, it carries you through, reasonable bit of theatre. 5 is a fair score imo.