The Great Escape

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2005)

Performance by the characters leaves behind the direction. Steve McQueen is no doubt the star performer with his bike chase and all. The plot is gripping towards the end. The Germans guards in the prison are shown to be incredibly lenient. Imagine which prison (that too German) would give such mild punishments to its inmate for escaping the 17th time! The movie is all about smart ideas to escape from the prison and there the movie scores pretty well. I am not saying it outwits modern day movies but its quite realistic.
Its quite exciting to imagine yourself (temporarily!) in place of the prisoners. Despite the leverage the movie deserves for being based on a true story, the movie is a good watch. I give it a 7.