"When approaching a prison break out based on true events it can be difficult to try and dissect factual analysis from whimsical storytelling, especially when trying to keep taste of what is a touchy and difficult subject for many.
Maze, luckily, never falls into romanticism of either side. We follow a republican prisoner, Larry, who masterminds a plot to escape 38 of his fellow prisoners.
Looking beyond the politics of the story being told this is a genuinely gripping story that makes you see the destruction passionate belief can have, and how we can judge whether it is right, wrong, and if violence is ever an answer.
The nuanced performances in the slow telling of a story ripened in the dismal landscape of a bare barren prison are wonderful in their bleakness - this is a story that perfectly transcribes a setting of wonder if prison is ever the answer to those that defy law"
- 7/10
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