Escape from Pretoria (Blu-ray)
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Escape from Pretoria
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 7, 2020
- Originally Released: 2020
- Label: eOne
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Radcliffe & Daniel Webber | |
Performer: | Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page & Grant Piro | |
Directed by | Francis Annan | |
Edited by | Nick Fenton | |
Composition by | David Hirschfelder | |
Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Hall |
Entertainment Reviews:
69%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 35
Annan's film works effectively as a straight-up jailbreak thriller, well-oiled in greasy B-movie tradition. It's when it shoots for more historical import that it falls somewhat short.
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Variety
Almost everything that's enjoyable is a variation on stuff you've probably seen in superior prison movies, though Radcliffe's haunted performance is exceptionally compelling.
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TheWrap
Rating: 3/5 --
Annan knows how to grip, his story accelerating with a jittery rhythm, while Radcliffe's eternal earnestness fits the bill neatly.
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Financial Times
Excessive narration and clichéd dialogue distract from any potential for tension, meaning that Escape From Pretoria only realises its potential in the final minutes.
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Flickering Myth
Rating: 3/5 --
Although telling a true story - with a shaggy Daniel Radcliffe playing Tom Jenkin, jailed in Pretoria in 1978 for anti-apartheid activism - Francis Annan's film lacks the rounded characters of the best prison dramas.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Tense political prison thriller has some violence, language.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2/5 --
Escape From Pretoria - also set in South Africa, also based on a real-life story - is, sadly, also a fail.
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Daily Mail (UK)
Product Description:
Director Francis Annan's prison thriller is an adaptation of South African political prisoner Tim Jenkin's memoir "Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison." It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart, and Daniel Webber in a tale about political prisoners who conspire to break out of Pretoria Central Prison in 1979 during South Africa's tumultuous apartheid era. The promise of freedom is dependent on making fragile wooden copies of their jailer's keys and nerve-wracking timing.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,359
- UPC: 191329129357
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