This movie is so relatable, and at one point, I had to pause to Google to see if it was a true-life story, and I was amazed to see that yes, it is a true-life story. The fact that it is centred on Africa made it more interesting to me. This is one of those movies I've refused to delete from my files after watching because I want it on my Drive always.
Escape from Mogadishu was released in 2021, and one would think the movie is an ancient one due to the early 2000s costumes and background.
There's trouble in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia; in fact, there's a fierce riot, and the foreigners are in trouble and seeking a means to survive the attack on them. While everyone is finding a way to survive, diplomats from North Korea and South Korea are facing deep enmity, and that makes their survival journey an even bigger trouble. Imagine a situation on a battlefield where the two national diplomats are supposed to team up and fight the enemy, yet the two of them are seen setting traps for each other.
The best scene of this movie to me is when both parties agreed to travel in a convoy of cars covered with books and bags of sand to shield them from bullets, through endless bursts of gunfire. I can't count how many times I watched this part. The intensity of the pace is out of this world, and we can't skip the flow of emotions either.
Among other things, one of the areas I keep applauding is the cinematography. How did they make the battle scenes look so real, as if I'm in the middle of the battlefield with them? This is not a feature of a green background (CGI) as we usually see; the bullets penetrating through the glass windows of the moving cars, with people inside practically having broken glass splashing on their faces. The fast-moving cars galloping over dead bodies on the road, the scattering of cars, with injuries clearly showing as they happen on the faces of the people inside the cars.
Is that how undeveloped Somalia is?
This movie was produced in 2021, and as such, I expected Mogadishu to be developed as the capital city of the country, but... Hold on, I know the environment used, and even though some notable structures and facilities were used, I think the locations portraying the low standard of living in Africa were perfectly portrayed in the movie. From the issue of no electricity to no network to make calls and others. But if that's how Somalia is generally, it's fine too. Lol.
The combination of Koreans and Africans in the movie, with both sides finding good means to communicate in English and Korean, gave the movie a natural flow.
I would rate it 9.9/10.
First photo: IMDB
Other photos: Screenshots
Rating: 99/100
