Editing Four Days in September (section)

===Critical response===
The film had mixed reviews, in part because of its fictionalizing Brazilian history, and its uneasy portrayal of terrorist activities by student radicals. ''Four Days in September'' has an approval rating of 59% on [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 17 reviews, and an average rating of 6.5/10.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/four_days_in_september | title=Four Days in September | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref>

[[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "''Four Days in September'' is an uneasy hybrid of political thriller and high-minded meditation on terrorism, its psychology and its consequences."<ref name="holden">[ STEPHEN HOLDEN, Review: ''Four Days in September''/"The Political Kidnapping Of an Ambassador Retold"], ''The New York Times'', 30 January 1998, accessed 24 January 2014</ref> He noted that the film suggests the kidnapping was followed by worse political events, with increased repression, and torture of MR-8 members. He describes Cardoso as the most complex character.<ref name="holden"/>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave it two stars, saying the film was marked by a "quiet sadness" and the "film examines the way that naive idealists took on more than they could handle."<ref name="ebert">[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/four-days-in-september-1998 Roger Ebert, Review: ''Four Days in September'' (1998), 6 February 1998, Roger Ebert website]</ref> He suggests that the film tries to humanize both sides but seems muddled. Ebert writes, "The point of view is that of a middle-age man who no longer quite understands why, as a youth, he was so sure of things that now seem so puzzling."<ref name="ebert"/>