Movie Reviews Catch A Fire Flushed Away
Filmmakers have been documenting the horrors of apartheid for decades. Noyce (“Rabbit-Proof Fence”) encourages us to feel the echo of current events. “Catch a Fire” tells the true story of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), an apolitical oil-refinery foreman in 1980s South Africa whose false arrest and torture transformed him into a gun-wielding freedom fighter. This is how terrorists are created. We root for Chamusso, of course, but the training-camp scenes, in which he prepares to fight his oppressors to the death, create uneasy associations....