ma-cortes The picture shows life in Apartheid-era South Africa, it deals about the real story of Patrick Chamusso(Derek Luke), an oil refinery foreman, soccer coach and good father of family . He's married to Precious(Bonnie Henna) and with children. The president Botha's government rules in iron hand of the supremacist white minority over the black population in an oppressive system. When happen an explosion in the refinery Patrick is arrested by police colonel Nic Vos(Tim Robbins).The secretive torture and sadism that follows in custody leads to his changing ideals. His wife is also arrested and then truly starts to watch the atrocities, forced to become freedom fighter and then he goes into action. Rebellion against the repressive government breaks out his mind. He's attempting to change his world for the better but at the expense of using terrorist means. Then he goes to Mozambique where is trained by the local terrorist guerrilla and he joins the ANC, African National Congress.This is an exciting and thrilling movie based on real events.This story about apartheid is very compelling made and deserving a fine treatment with poignant moments.It's completely convincing and makes a moving and powerful statement about the evil of the racism. Superb cast with fine all round performances; particularly from Derek Luke, he does a very good job, he's surprisingly good in the role of dad turned terrorist, and excellent Tim Robbins as sadistic torturer.The remainder of the casting was also competent enough and did splendid acting.Evocative cinematography by Garry Phillips and Ron Fortunato. Adequate musical score with African sounds by Philip Miller . The motion picture is professionally directed by Phillip Noyce. Another films about ¨Apartheid¨ theme are the following: ¨ Cry the beloved country¨with Sidney Poitier; ¨The power of one¨ with Armin Mueller Stall and Steven Dorff;¨A world apart¨by Chris Menges with Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May; ¨A white dry season¨with Marlon Brando; ¨Cry Freedom¨ by Richard Attemborough with Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline; and the biographies, as ¨Mandela¨ with Danny Glover and Alfre Woodward as Winnie and ¨Mandela and DeKlerk¨, among others.

philliplwiza I find it rather amusing, that you are using a movie database sounding board to voice your frustration. Heres a little homework assignment for you. Open up your history books, hopefully they have been given revised since the 1800 edition you last had. One list should contain every single act of barbarism, violence, rape and injustice that the Europeans have committed against Africans, and the second should contain every act of violence against Europeans by Africans. You see maybe Im lucky because I have been educated in a country like the United States I have been granted a luxury. The country I live in gives me the up to date information on the true history of "your" country. I know you probably got most of your history lesson from your pro apartheid grandfather's arm chair built on the backs of the natives. How sad I truly feel for you, but continue to rant about the injustices of being white in a country thats not even yours. God bless America, where we believe in freedom and justice for all.

sweetbrad48 The entire film is a lie. The film is dedicated to Joe Slovo, portrayed in the movie as 'Head of ANC Special Ops', when in actual fact he was the leader of the South African Communist Party, and a Marxist and terrorist through and through. At one point, an ANC 'cadre' instructs his trainees that 'the ANC does not kill indiscriminately', when in actual fact all those thugs ever did was murder civilians in their quest to seize power and reduce South Africa to another Stalinist hellhole. The ANC, and specifically Mandela and Slovo were behind the infamous 'Church Street bombing', that saw a bomb detonated in rush hour Pretoria, killing and maiming scores of innocent men and women - both black and white. The image of Mandela that has been sold to the gullible West has been one of a peaceful uniter, when in actual fact he schooled his followers in the teachings of Marx and Lenin, counts Fidel Castro as a close friend, and has the blood of many people - black and white - on his hands. Both Mandela and Joe Slovo are nothing more than garden variety Marxist thugs, and no amount of revisionist film making will change that.

Scott-101 In one of the many movies that were set in Africa this past year, Catch a Fire seemed the most derivative and least eventful. Based on a true story, Luke stars as Patrick Chamusso, a revolutionary in the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Tim Robbins, in a convincing performance, stars as government agent Nick Vos, who seeks to interrogate Chamusso for a suspected terrorist crime. The movie focuses mainly on the transformation of Chamusso as a peaceful citizen to a government-despising terrorist, which would have been interesting if the movie hadn't left out so much. By the time the film starts to get to the heart of the story, it ends.The movie and DVD's official Website promotes the film as "an action-packed journey of sabotage, corruption, alienation and murder," but the film offers very little in the way of action -- or plot development, for that matter. Catch a Fire feels like two hours of exposition to a larger plot that is unfortunately left out.