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“Akilla’s Escape” opens with a black-and-white historical montage set to Bob Marley’s “Punky Reggae Party.” Interspersed throughout clips describing the rise of gang violence in Jamaica are scenes of an older Jamaican man dancing vibrantly to Marley’s famous reggae banger.
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A drug dealer finds his moral code challenged when he interrupts an armed robbery and captures one of the gang members who is a 15-year-old boy.
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- Saul Williams
- Charles Officer
- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Jun 10, 2021 · Akilla’s Escape recasts the monolithic narrative of gang involvement as one that rejects a trope of Black peril in order to tell a multi-dimensional story of resilience – one where keen ...
Akilla's Escape crafts a riveting, hypnotic neo-noir requiem for those trapped in vicious cycles. Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 11, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 · All right. The weathered, storied face of rapper-actor Saul Williams does the heaviest lifting in “Akilla’s Escape,” an exceedingly solemn crime drama from Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer...
- Guy Lodge
Aug 26, 2022 · Akilla’s Escape: Jamaican American crime drama that prizes ambience over originality. Charles Officer’s diasporic gangster film stars a riveting Saul Williams, but its portentousness and cliché trappings are disappointing.
Jun 10, 2021 · A meditative mood piece, Charles Officer’s neo-noir crime thriller “Akilla’s Escape” dispenses with the usual cops-and-robbers tropes in its depiction of a young male teen enveloped in a ...
