I've seen only the first third of the film so far. However- if you read the Wikipedia article on Carlos (as I did because I did not know too much about the protagonist) - you will be surprised how closely the filmmakers seem to stick to the terrorists' real biography. Its obviously a serious, historically rather accurate piece of work.
If you are not too much into the cultural or intellectual aspects of the movie, you can also enjoy it because: The music is great, good acting, many different sets, the camera and lighting has an interesting, fake, low-quality 70s look-and-feel to it.
There is lots of smoking (in airplanes, at bars, in offices etc) and people often leave or enter a set on cool 70s vintage cars.
It captures the atmosphere of the early seventies really well.
Now let's see for the rest of the movie....
If you are not too much into the cultural or intellectual aspects of the movie, you can also enjoy it because: The music is great, good acting, many different sets, the camera and lighting has an interesting, fake, low-quality 70s look-and-feel to it.
There is lots of smoking (in airplanes, at bars, in offices etc) and people often leave or enter a set on cool 70s vintage cars.
It captures the atmosphere of the early seventies really well.
Now let's see for the rest of the movie....