While appeared to be somewhat historically accurate, the movie did not hit the emotional highs I would expect them to try for. It came across dry, despite the excellent cinematography and performance by Helen Mirren.

They did succeed in recreating the panic of the 1973 attack, and the crisis, however, and the recreations of the sounds of war are haunting.

Despite it being produced before October of this year, the parallels between the 1973 attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel on Yom Kippur and the 2023 attack, 50 years later are distinct because Hamas picked the day for a reason.