14/06/19 Hotel Mumbai (2018)

This British co-production, with a largely British cast is finally being released over here in late September many months after the rest of the world got to see it. However, those cheeky internet folk released it onto numerous streaming sites so was accessible to anyone with a mouse and keyboard a while back.

As for the film, it's odd that we now live in such a global maelstrom of horror, that an event as terrible and significant as this, or the events that the film's based on at least, had become a vague "I think I remember this happening" in both our minds.
On the assumption that much of it is close to the truth, the bravery shown by the staff of the hotel when it was under attack by whatever subset of lunatics chose them, was astounding. As Mark Kermode put it so well in his review, it's a film that shows you both how awful and inspiring humans can be.

As ever, there's the question of moral justification, turning tragedy into 'entertainment' and profit, but let's at least hope the people involved in making it had some decent intentions.