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- 2021
- TV-14
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 2 h 1 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 2 h 1 m
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.
Directed By: Seung-wan Ryu
Written By: Ki-cheol Lee, Seung-wan Ryu
- 2021
- TV-14
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 2 h 1 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 2 h 1 m
Escape from Mogadishu
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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.
Directed By: Seung-wan Ryu
Written By: Ki-cheol Lee, Seung-wan Ryu
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
71
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
On its own terms, Escape From Mogadishu makes for an engrossing, nail-biting Korean history lesson.
Ryoo ramps things up impressively once all hope of protection from local forces evaporates. Audiences are treated to half an hour of top-class car chases and shootouts as the group attempt to make it safely across town and onto a rescue flight.
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.
A giddy chase scene almost singlehandedly rescues Escape from Mogadishu, an otherwise unmoving South Korean political thriller about the real-life Korean diplomats who fled Somalia during that country’s 1991 civil war.
This is a decent, intelligent, well-acted film if a little uninspired until that third act, which packs an almighty punch.
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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Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
7.0
80% Positive
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Production Company
Dexter Studios,
Filmmaker R&K,
Lotte Entertainment
Release Date Aug 6, 2021
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating TV-14
Website
https://mogadishu-movie.com/
Awards
Buil Film Awards
• 6 Wins & 11 Nominations
Blue Dragon Awards
• 5 Wins & 10 Nominations
Korean Film Producers Association Awards
• 6 Wins & 6 Nominations
