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I don't like to tell the story of the movie. I feel that it is something for you to see. This movie touched my feelings on the plight of a situtation that has been going on for years with no end in sight. In the fight that is still raging today in another country brings and individual who thinks he can make a difference into our own country to purchase items they believe will help them and the extremes that a person will go through to help his country and cause to win the war they have been fighting all their lives for.
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Harrison Ford has done a done a considerable amount of movies I have really enjoyed and this is one of my favorites. It has a great story, good acting, nice photography and a pleasing soundtrack. It also has an excellent mixture of violence and lulls, not overdoing either and some excellent suspense. All of that adds up to a good two hours of entertainment.
Pitt also excels in here as the IRA terrorist who is extremely bitter, violently so, since as a young boy he witnessed his father's murder. It has to be one of Pitt's best performances.. Ford plays a New York City cop and an honest, good one at that, which is nice to see in a modern-day film in which filmmakers prefer to show corrupt policemen. Another very strong point of this film was the ending. When you read someone writing it was "unsatisfactory," don't believe it. Morally, the only objection I had to this film - other than the Lord's name in vain - was too much credence given to Pitt's revenge and violent lifestyle being "understandable" under the circumstances. No, sorry, but as sweet as revenge is to all of us, it shouldn't be condoned.
I love the Irish music in here, especially the final song sung during the ending credits. It's beautiful, so don't just the film off too soon.
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OK, so I'll admit that Brad Pitt's accent is not perfect and there's no way any IRA man would be that pretty (imagine if Brad Pitt looked like Gerry Adams - I doubt he would get as many roles). But the accent is actually not that bad, and Belfast people do actually say "foks sake" quite frequently.
I agree there are some dubious moments in the plot and that the action scenes are a little far fetched, but hey, this is Hollywood, and there is enough of a "gritty realism" feel imparted elsewhere to distract the viewer from these minor inconsistencies.
Harrison Ford plays the same character he played in Patriot Games / Air Force 1 / The Fugitive, which is fine by me since I enjoyed all those movies and I am a big Harrison fan.
I didn't find the plot partucularly confusing (it's pretty straightforward really). And although I certainly wouldn't venture to say that the script delivers chapter and verse on the hellishly complicated political situation in N. Ireland, it does at least go some way to explaining the mechanisms (personal revenge, indoctrination) that drive the cycle of violence there.
And the bittersweet ending has the desired effect.
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Ireland and the Irish have always been a mystery and this film looks at the fight for independence in Northern Ireland from both a sympathetic and hostile point of view. It sends a mixed message. On one hand it shows how the IRA is motivated into fighting by the atrocities they have lived for several centuries : rejection, assassinations, segregation, even apartheid because they are catholic and Irish by origin and roots. It shows the ruthlessness of the British forces, their principle that you do not have to capture opponents but to kill them since they are not fighting for their freedom but are only terrorists, a word that is used haphazardly and that excuses the protestant militias, the British secret services and even the British armed forces and police. On the other hand it is entirely biassed and only show how these IRA people are to be rejected and have to be rejected and tracked by normal people including normal Irishmen, particularly in the US. It is an Irish cop in New York who unknowingly lodges and covers the militant from Ireland with a pack of lies arranged by an Irish judge in New York too. The deal the Irish militant is in New York for gets sour and he has to clean up the plate of the arm-traffickers and smugglers. But then the British secret services and the FBI get into the picture. So the Irish NYPD cop tries to capture the militant himself to avoid his being coldbloodedly slaughtered by the British secret services. Hence the confrontation of the two. The NY cop has a duty, though he understands the motivations of his opponent, his alter ego. The militant has a duty too, and he will have to be killed not to perform it. And what has to happen happens. Though we are told it is not an American story (implied : that ends well) but an Irish ballad (implied : that ends in blood and tears), it is both an Irish ballad ending in blood and tears and an American story because the good ending is also a happy ending but for the British secret services and for the establishment that refuses any armed struggle against oppression and qualifies it as terroristic. Order is thus saved even if some millions of catholic people are still submitted to a century-old oppression by protestant foreigners.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Saw it a week ago and must say it is good, but not great, but i give it 5 stars since i am a die hard fan of both actors. Watch Troy and StarWars if you want better movies from these actors.
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