Highly Unlikely Sports Drama

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2002)

Perhaps the above summary isn`t really a criticism since ESCAPE TO VICTORY isn`t a film that is to be taken seriously . Well I hope it isn`t because to have the then 48 year old Michael Caine to be playing a English international footballer who was world famous in the 30s must have meant he was at the height of his footballing skill when he was in his late thirties ! And we have Pele the greatest football player ever as the inmate of a prisoner of war camp during the second world war . Just one problem though , Pele is a black man ! Did the Germans ever take a single black man prisoner during the second world war ? Write in if anyone knows.
Trivia note : The English football supporters have their own orchestra which constantly plays the theme tune to the classic Michael Caine caper movie THE ITALIAN JOB , not that this ever improves the team`s performance .