| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
Half-hearted attempt at an essay on sin and redemption that features fine performances but is not as good as it clearly could have been.
It soft-pedals any rationale for the IRA as freedom fighters; reducing the impact of the drama away from having to break eggs to make omelettes to one where all violence is somehow wrong. And yet Mickey ROURKE’s portrayal of a sympathetic gunman still works and the well-deployed dramatic clichés (eg, blind girl who sees people for what they really are) wring tears when they need to.
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