Much more than just a simple revenge thriller, South African film 180 (now on Netflix) plays out in the gray areas of morality and legality. Alex Yazbek writes and directs this thoughtfully rendered story of a desperate man right on the cusp of having nothing to lose, played by Prince Grootboom, one of the principals in the Netflix erotic thriller series Fatal Seduction. Might you say he has a death wish? Maybe, and the parallels with a certain thorny ’70s-cinema staple are hard to ignore.
180: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: Johannesburg. A traffic jam. Zak (Grootboom) just wants to get his seven-year-old son, Mandla (Mpiloenhle Ndebele), home and ready for cricket practice. Zak looks ahead at the line of cars in front of him and sees two men execute a hit in broad daylight. Bang. Someone’s dead. As commuters flee their vehicles, the perpetrators turn to Zak,
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