Escape From Pretoria

2020 • 106 minutit

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Escape From Pretoria is the true story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), young, white South Africans branded "terrorists", and imprisoned in 1978 for working covert operations for Nelson Mandela's banned ANC. Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, they decide to send the apartheid regime a clear message and escape! With breath-taking ingenuity, meticulous surveillance, and wooden keys crafted for 10 steel doors, they make a bid for freedom... Beyond a thrilling will-they-won't-they-escape, this is the story of an oppressed majority's struggle, and two ordinary men who stood-up to be counted in the pursuit of equality for all.

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Hollywood should focus on the current state of South Africa, not what was or what could be. It's been decades and the utopian ethnostate predicted by the ANC has only materialised the most dystopian hellhole imaginable for South Africans of all races. Idealism is no match for reality, and the reality in this case is that South Africa is now being exploited and pillaged by the very 'leaders' the ANC (that this movie glorifies) put forward. The sacrifices of tens of thousands of people of all races were to naught. For shame.

Its a stereotypical escape movie. Some good suspense and interesting effects. I was expecting it to have more of a story behind it in terms of how the characters fitted into the bigger picture of the ANC and its efforts to end apartheid. Some of the characters could have had more of a real South African accent. Daniel Radcliffe did a good job with the accent.

A good escape movie. Perhaps a little too hollywood - but solid. If not based on a true story it would have been hard to believe. Today - as we talk about black lives matter - this movie was even more relevant.