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| Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: August 6, 2021 |
Starring:
Gyo-hwan Koo, In-sung Jo, Jun-ho Heo, Man-shik Jeong, So-jin Kim, Yun-seok Kim
Summary:
Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.
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Aug 4, 2021
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Movie Nation
Aug 3, 2021
Mar 18, 2022
You can tell Ryoo loves Hong Kong action cinema. His camerawork is nimble and elastic, and his starchy diplomats are unexpectedly great at martial arts. But the character scenes are well-handled too, and there’s a smart critique here on a divided country that can’t even be truly unified in a shared crisis.
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RogerEbert.com
Aug 6, 2021
The Observer (UK)
Apr 5, 2022
The picture, a big-budget spectacle guided by the sure hand of action director Seung-wan Ryu (Crying Fist), is at its most effective when the hurtling camera is strafed by bullets. It’s less successful when the headlong pace falters to allow the screenplay to hammer home its message of collaboration and tolerance.
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Oct 21, 2021
With little interest in elucidating the conflict at hand, much less in distinguishing between the various Somali parties in play, “Escape” is a wildly inadequate history lesson — it’s a silly blockbuster after all. More offensive is the film’s eagerness to whittle one nation’s traumatic episode into a setting for confectionary escapades.
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Oct 27, 2021
the movie is a great blend of emotion and stakes that just keep rising. its like a never ending roller-coaster of action and greatness.
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