Average accents aside, this is a brilliant escape movie.

Rating: 8/10 (6 September 2011)

The Way Back is a superb little POW escape drama movie. Yes, it is slow and I guess you have to be in the mood, but this is a commendable political prisoner film, with a good cast and some great location shooting.
Set in 1941, a group of Gulag incarcerated political prisoners are trapped, and slowly starving to death in a Siberian woodland camp. They join up as a group to escape together, determined to better die trying and free, than starving to death at the hands of the Russian/German alliance in WWII.
The group of Polish prisoners are in the whole acted by British actors and so the accents are questionable, but the performances are strong and the characters due muster up some aiding emotion, sympathy and feeling. Their escape, based on true events, is believable, heart-felt and compellingly raw.
Overall, a long-winded but rewarding tale of triumph over adversity amidst WWII creating an entertaining and mainly gripping prison escape drama.