Silverton Siege
Director: Mandla Dube
Year Released: 2022
Rating: 1.0
Understandably frustrated with living under Apartheid, Khumalo (Thabo Rametsi), Terra (Noxolo Dlamini), Aldo (Stefan Erasmus) and Masego (Vincent Mahlape) come together to attack a power plant, get chased down by the police and wind up at a bank where they take hostages (but have no intention of stealing the money ... in fact, they set it on fire) ... and then demand Nelson Mandela be released from prison. It's ever-so-loosely based on a true story, and does fine when it's just tries to be an action movie, but the background details on any of its principal characters are very skimpy (near the finale, one character reveals that he witnessed his parents get murdered) and it uses every opportunity to go on a rant about race relations in South Africa (it clearly wasn't good, but anyone who's cracked open a history book should know this). It finally takes a white woman named Christine (Elani Dekker) taking a bullet to the neck by a sweaty sniper for the faux-robbery to come to an end: there's your "solution" to racism - accidentally wipe out the Ministry of Justice's daughter!