Escape Through Africa

Bunch of weaklings getting caught and going back and forth between german and British forces.

Obvious situations are not aware to the characters in the storyline and they kept getting caught.

Seened like tgere was no end to the hostage situation and the brits came across as putz.

Bunch of weaklings getting caught and going back and forth between german and British forces.

Obvious situations are not aware to the characters in the storyline and they kept getting caught.

Seened like tgere was no end to the hostage situation and the brits came across as putz.

Couldn't wait for it to be over.

The current IMDB score of 4.1 is a fairly accurate assessment of this movie (but I feel it should be lower). Seeing Eric Roberts as the lead actor should have been my first clue that this movie would bomb, but I thought I'd give it a go regardless. Although it became immediately apparent that this movie was a B-Grade movie, it did start out okay. It didn't take long to slowly get worse until it reached the level of stupid. Poor script, poor acting, terrible fight scenes, cliche story line and what can only be described as major plot holes scattered throughout. It got an extra star only because of Linn Bjornland and her cuteness :P.

The dialogue, along with the actors who had to speak it, was pitiful, creating to the overall abysmal result, as was written in another review, which I should have read before I watched this movie. It's hard to believe this film was made in 2022, when viewers should have been able to expect better. Eric Roberts may have done the best he could with the dialogue he was given; he probably should've turned down this role. However, along with the other British soldiers and the one German soldier, his actions seemed very jerky and unrealistic. The actors who played the guard Yash and the Masai warrior Chaka did the best they could with what they had and at least managed to create characters that could be sympathized with.

I cant believe any government who wanted to get a foothold in Africa would make such a feeble attempt as to put a few poorly trained soldiers and mercenaries in a small outpost in the middle of nowhere overseeing a range of wild animals and savages. That being said, even if were true, this movie does a terrible job portraying it. The acting is mediocre to bad, fight scenes undramatic and unreal, cinematography is nonexistent and other than suspenseful music, its just a poorly written and acted movie. If you want to see a real movie about the British army in Africa I would suggest the original movie "Zulu" with a debut by actor Michael Caine.

Eric Roberts studied acting in Britain in the early 1970s. Therefore he must have relished the challenge of doing an English accent in Escape Through Africa.

Roberts has a starring role in this movie. An old fashioned rip roaring adventure in the mould of Zulu.

Unfortunately it is let down by a clunky script and a very low budget.

Set in 1914 East Africa. British army officer Captain Lockwood (Eric Roberts.) His niece Anne Corringfield (Linn Bjornland) with the help of African tribesman need to warn a neighboring outpost of an impending German attack.

However Lockwood suspects that there is traitor in the party. Anne then goes off to rescue a local girl who has been abducted.

The story is too cliched. It lacks action and it needed a lot of extras for some scenes to even make it look like a viable epic.

Roberts seem to be enjoying himself with a meaty character. A racist of his time, we regards the Africans beneath him, not bothered that a local girl has gone missing. Yet his character begins to understand the local natives.