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'Akilla's Escape': Film Review | TIFF 2020

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Fifteen years ago, Saul Williams was a heavy metal-sampling hip-hop poet whose fiercely political live shows called for reparations at a time when that was not very fashionable.

He now projects a much more subdued urgency in the title role of Charles Officer's Akilla's Escape, playing a man raised up amid violence who has never stopped trying to avoid it.

A mature crime picture whose decades-hopping action makes the effects of generational poverty obvious without having to spell it out, it lacks some of the flash expected in commercial genre pictures, but makes up for that in seriousness.

After a credits sequence that flips through the headlines of Jamaica's history, the film splits its time between two cities where immigrants have carried.

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