Steve Crook How to make a terrorist in 8 simple steps.1. Take an innocent person living under an oppressive regime.2. Arrest them, torture them.3. For good measure, torture their spouse as well.4. Blackmail friends to spy on their family.5. Kill people while they are under arrest.6. Keep on oppressing the people.7. Claim that God is on your side and that you have a divine right to oppress them.8. Then sit back and wonder why people are fighting against you.Eventually the people you are oppressing will rise up against you.If you are lucky they will let you live when they take power.

sweetbrad48 The entire film is a lie. The film is dedicated to Joe Slovo, portrayed in the movie as 'Head of ANC Special Ops', when in actual fact he was the leader of the South African Communist Party, and a Marxist and terrorist through and through. At one point, an ANC 'cadre' instructs his trainees that 'the ANC does not kill indiscriminately', when in actual fact all those thugs ever did was murder civilians in their quest to seize power and reduce South Africa to another Stalinist hellhole. The ANC, and specifically Mandela and Slovo were behind the infamous 'Church Street bombing', that saw a bomb detonated in rush hour Pretoria, killing and maiming scores of innocent men and women - both black and white. The image of Mandela that has been sold to the gullible West has been one of a peaceful uniter, when in actual fact he schooled his followers in the teachings of Marx and Lenin, counts Fidel Castro as a close friend, and has the blood of many people - black and white - on his hands. Both Mandela and Joe Slovo are nothing more than garden variety Marxist thugs, and no amount of revisionist film making will change that.

Scott-101 In one of the many movies that were set in Africa this past year, Catch a Fire seemed the most derivative and least eventful. Based on a true story, Luke stars as Patrick Chamusso, a revolutionary in the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Tim Robbins, in a convincing performance, stars as government agent Nick Vos, who seeks to interrogate Chamusso for a suspected terrorist crime. The movie focuses mainly on the transformation of Chamusso as a peaceful citizen to a government-despising terrorist, which would have been interesting if the movie hadn't left out so much. By the time the film starts to get to the heart of the story, it ends.The movie and DVD's official Website promotes the film as "an action-packed journey of sabotage, corruption, alienation and murder," but the film offers very little in the way of action -- or plot development, for that matter. Catch a Fire feels like two hours of exposition to a larger plot that is unfortunately left out.

Spaceygirl A powerful story well told in skillful hands. Philip Noyce, of Rabbitproof Fence fame, once again takes a story of oppression and just tells the story, without apportioning blame or taking sides. The script is marvellous and the acting uniformly good. Tim Robbins and Derek Lucas both affecting near-flawless South African accents, take the male leads and put in outstanding roles. Tim Robbins as the Afrikaner cop is a character difficult to understand, at one point he takes his prisoner home for Sunday dinner with his family and in another scene oversees the beating-up and torture of innocent people. Derek Lucas is equally good as a man who's only interest lies with his family and job before being arrested and ultimately backed into a course of action that he could not have foreseen. Michelle Botes and Bonnie Mbuli are both excellent South African actresses who play the respective wives, Bonnie Mbuli in particular putting in a very affecting role as the wife who stands by helplessly as her husband spirals into a new life which does not include her or her children. H