The story for a second would look like based on a true story as they advertise it .. but through the events .. things tend to get dull and unnecessary overuse of hiped unrealistic romance /love story.

Julianne Moore didn't do well in here ,, even the imitation of the song sounded fake on her lips...

The only reason I saw this movie was because Julianne Moore, which she did a good job at, but I thought her character lacked some substance, something that I would have appreciated in order to better connect with the main characters of the movie. The movie has a good story, but I think its hard to go into that much details in less than 2 hours. Bel Canto would have been a great if it was made into a mini-series.

Besides Julianne Moore, others actresses and actors in this movie were not bad either, especially the Commandate Benjamin "Tenoch Huerta" and Carmen "Maria Mercedes Coroy," but again I would have liked to learn more about these characters.

Overall, it was a cute movie and as my title suggests it is not a thriller movie at all, there was more romance in the movie than the thriller part.

A few facts: on 17 December 1996, 14 Tupac Amaru guerillas took over the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, holding 700 plus people hostage. This total was quickly reduced to 72 hostages. The event lasted 126 days (!), with the result that we all know. Now out of this event, a soggy, inept movie has been made. Paul Weitz has little sense of pace and dramatic effect. The viewer is left thinking 'What does this have to do with anything?' too many times. The hostages have little individuality, are mainly interchangeable; the guerillas have vague motivations that we can only guess at. Julianne Moore and Sebastian Koch have done better work. I had the wish that they had hired Renee Fleming to play the soprano, she would have added a good deal of charm and star quality to this sad effort.