Blu-ray Review – Rabin, the Last Day

"Rabin, the Last Day" isn't the easiest picture to acclimate to. At first, the effort resembles a television news program, offering an extensive interview with Israeli politician Shimon Peres, setting the tone as the details of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's 1995 assassination are established. The film then introduces camera footage from the fateful day, exploring the volatile public gathering that greeted Rabin. And finally, when gunfire breaks out, director Amos Gitai transforms the effort into a dramatic recreation of the fallout and preamble to murder. Tonally, "Rabin, the Last Day" takes some time to adjust to, with the helmer ambitiously attempting to dissect a specific moment in time through various perspectives and levels of confidence. It's not an especially convincing juggling act, especially for 155 minutes of screen time, but the passion that drives the feature is difficult to smother, fighting to identify Rabin's controversial vision for Israel's future and dissect the figure's cruel death any way it can. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com