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The Assault

Movie
2022
1h 30m
Kazakh
Drama
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
Rating
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5.8
IMDB
The Assault (2022) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
95

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Directed By: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Written By: Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Screenplay)

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miguelreina says...
3 years ago
[IFFR'22] The film mixes genres, a kind of thriller with moments of comedy that are correctly balanced. But the Kazakh director maintains his interest in referring to complex and serious issues, such as violence or corruption, but with an appearance of irrelevant texture, using humor to launch important reflections on the particular (his own country) and the general (the perversity of the human being).
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CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  2 years ago
Seeing the usually totally incompetent characters of Yerzhanov trying to handle a hostage situation promises some stupid fun, and on that it delivers.

It delivers right from the start with the terrorist's entrance, just naturally walking into the school unnoticed while several people are just loo More
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