Director: Yuval Adler
Year Released: 2013
Rating: 2.0
Israeli Intelligence Officer Razi (Tsahi Halevi) runs into trouble with his high-strung and reckless teenage informant (Shadi Mar'i) when the informant's rogue brother is killed by Israeli Forces - being a teen with severe anger issues, he quickly turns on his handler and gets further enmeshed with Palestinian terrorists vowing revenge. While Adler may be Israeli himself, he gets Palestinian Ali Wakad to provide the 'other side' of the argument - though I still think it straddles too closely to the Israel P.O.V. to be entirely 'objective' (the Palestinians seem to be hot heads and blood thirsty; the Jewish individuals calm and collected). As a police procedural (in effect), it's rather routinely structured, and the concluding sequence in which the 'father figure' is slain by his own 'son' once again suggests there is no simple solution to the terribly endless cycle of violence between two warring factions. In short: it's a mess, everyone knows it's a mess, it will probably always be a mess.
