The Assault

The Assault is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie. Cast Vincent Elbaz as Thierry Prungnaud Grégori Derangère as Commander Denis Favier Mélanie Bernier as Carole Jeanton as Yahia Chems Dahmani as Mustapha Djanis Bouzyani as Salim Marie Guillard as Claire Prungnaud Naturel Le Ruyet as Emma Philippe Bas as Didier Antoine Basler as Solignac as Roland Môntins Mohid Abid as Makhlouf Fatima Adoum as Djida Hugo Becker as Vincent Leroy Abdelhafid Metalsi as Ali Touchent Claire Chazal as News presenter Reception , review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 53%, based on 145 reviews, with an average score of 5.86/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 55, based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".