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    7. Escape To Victory (1981)

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    By The Mad Movie Man on January 5, 2013 110-119 mins, 1981, 6 - 7.9, Drama, January, Movies Of 2013, Review, Sport, United States
    6.3 Cheesy and silly
    • Acting 6.5
    • Directing 6.3
    • Story 6
    • User Ratings (0 Votes) 0

    Starring: Michael Caine, Pelé, Sylvester Stallone

    Director: John Huston

    Running Time: 117 mins

    Escape To Victory is an American movie about a team of POWs in a Nazi camp who create an escape plan by staging a football (soccer) match between Allied prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

    This was a weird film, and it was in the end as cheesy as I expected, seeing as it had Sylvester Stallone in it, who appeared to be a very random choice to act in a film such as this, as was Pelé, as I’m sure that the Brazilians weren’t involved on the Western Front at all during World War II until they joined in in 1945.

    However, Michael Caine was the perfect actor for the captain of a football team against the Nazis; it’s as if he was born to play this role, and he did it well.

    The film was pretty weak overall, and there was no real sense of support for the POWs, which I expected to feel, but it was quite enjoyable to watch such a cheesy film, plus it was about football, and that’s always interesting!

    So this gets 6.3 because it was in fact entertaining, and a relatively unique story, although in effect completely predictable, but it was a bit boring at points in truth.

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