Stander
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Movie Reviews of Stander
Movie Review: Am I "Politically Correct" Yet?
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading some glowing reviews of this movie, I made a point of seeing it. Was I disappointed!
Pompous, preachy, self-important, and--worst of all--really dull.
Despite being "based on a true story", it's a plot you've seen many times before, especially in Australian movies. (Think "Ned Kelly".) Especially when people start cheering Stander as a folk hero (for robbing banks?), I got a real sense of deja vu.
Don't waste your time, even if you're a big Thomas Jane fan--I am, and I still hated this movie.
Movie Review: Bank robbing a protest against Apartheid? Give me a break!
Summary: 1 Stars
Based on a true story, the 2003 film sounded interesting. It's set in South Africa and starts in the 1970s when the evils of Apartheid were apparent. At that time Andre Stander was a young newly-married police officer. During an uprising, he shot and killed an unarmed protester. This disturbed him so much that he turned to bank robbing. Eventually he went to prison for this. In prison, he met up with a couple of fellow inmates. They escaped and went on a bank robbing spree. The ending is inevitable.
How the criminal bank robbing activity was a protest against Apartheid is rather fuzzy. But I watched the film anyway, always waiting for something to grab my sympathy. The film is almost two hours long and I was soon bored. Now I think I should have turned it off early, rather than waiting for the end. But I saw every single scene. What a waste of time!
Movie Review: Little to care about
Summary: 1 Stars
Reading about this movie you would think the protagonist is some sort of hero fighting against apartheid. The beginning of the movie shows how he becomes disillusioned with the system of apartheid. But, he becomes a bank robber to enrich himself and his gang, not to make some grand statement against apartheid. The story is neither compelling nor admirable. At the end of the movie there is a statement that Nelson Mandela was freed and became president of South Africa, as if Stander had some influence on that. Don't waste your time on this.