Throughout September I will be raiding my collection of favourite movies to review one a day, with a focus on overlooked and underappreciated films.
Where to find it: Rent on Amazon
Length: little over 2 hours
Synopsis: Biopic on the IRA’s top general from the Easter Rising to the Civil War
Recommendation rating: 3/5
What I like about it: history, tactics, guerrila warfare
What I don’t like about it: Julia Roberts is awful, Alan Rickman not a lot better
Review:
Liam Neeson plays the title role of the reluctant but dutiful soldier. Features great history such as his surgical co-ordinated assassination of British Army officers and the British Army’s massacre of civillians which followed, as well as de Valera’s prison break and the start of the Irish Civil War.
Content notes (may contain spoilers): violence