Based on events which unfurled over three days in December ‘94, writer-director Julien Leclercq's film is a gripping yet one-dimensional account of a French counter-terrorist offensive on a hijacked ...

The tense buildup to a blazing, if generic, rescue is the most satisfying part of “The Assault,” a stylized combo of action and drama from Julien Leclercq. Helmer’s second pic (after “Chrysalis”) is ...

NEAR DIJON, FRANCE — The assault team advanced in a line, stacked up behind the point man. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. He was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French President François Mitterrand congratulates GIGN agents who freed Air France Flight 8969, December 27, 1994.Alain ...

Whoa! Screen Media Films has released an official US trailer (in HD via Apple) for their action thriller The Assault, a based-on-a-true-story thriller about the Air France hijacking in 1994, and the ...

Julien Leclercq’s thriller The Assault dramatizes the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969, during which four terrorists took over a Paris-bound plane in Algiers, intending to crash it into the ...