Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Michiel Huisman, Alex Hassell in a still from Red Sea Diving Resort. I’ve had similar realisations about Steven Spielberg’s infinitely better made, but just as problematic film, Munich, in which a bunch of dudes carries out several extrajudicial killings in the name of religion.

In doing so, it robs its heroes of any sort of human decency, and turns them instead into cogs in a political machine. I mention Muslim nation because The Red Sea Diving Resort makes it a point to highlight religion, specifically Islam. To put matters into perspective, imagine if in today’s cultural climate, Bollywood were to make a film about a team of Hindu saviours, whose mission was to extract their religious cohorts from a Muslim nation that was being ironically secular in its cruelty towards its people.īetter yet, imagine if a bunch of Muslim heroes invaded our shores with the express purpose of taking every one of their brothers and sisters they could lay their hands on, back to an Islamic nation. In which case, the selective rescue of only one section of the populace makes no sense. This is assuming, of course, that people other than the Jews were also being persecuted by the Ethiopian government. Intentions aside, I found the nationalistic tone of the film to be fundamentally concerning. But Raff, despite his noble intentions, paints his film, ever so lightly, with the brush of propaganda. It is a story that required a nimble approach, one that could subtly side-step the prickly politics. Alex Hassell, Alessandro Nivola, Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Michiel Huisman in a still from Red Sea Diving Resort. But despite his worthiness, the film gives off an unmistakable whiff of the White Saviour trope. Evans is effectively playing Moses the Steve Rogers beard certainly helps. Once stationed at the resort, Levinson coordinates multiple rescue operations, successfully transporting his poor cousins across the Red Sea, and towards the Promised Land. Together with team of charismatic young men and women, whom he recruits in an uncomfortably upbeat montage, Levinson manages to convince the Israeli government to lease an abandoned beach resort in Sudan (a country desperate to reignite its tourism industry) as a front for his mission. To do this, Levinson compels his boss, played by a dazed Ben Kingsley, to sanction a plan of such audacity, that it must have been true. Evans plays a Mossad agent named Ari Levinson, who, struck by the plight of the Ethiopian Jews - a minority being systematically erased by a totalitarian regime - decides to help smuggle them into Israel.

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