Sunday, 4 April 2021

VOD: Escape From Pretoria (dir: Francis Annan, 2021)

"Totally pointless?"

Based on the true story of two ANC activists in the 1970s imprisoned and attempting to escape form the bones of this routine prison thriller which - earnest lead performances by Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber aside - offers little that you would not expect from this type of film.  There are some good moments of against-the-clock tension generated and the emerging escape plan is reasonably compelling, but there is certainly little different from standard prison genre fare here.
 

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