2006 · action · drama · thriller
Catch a Fire
Directed by Phillip Noyce1h 41m2006
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Our read: Catch a Fire (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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