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Anyone else seen this?

posted 6 years ago by Rorikon (17872)
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Not a bad movie. I always enjoy seeing movies Hugo Weaving is in. The gun reloading realism and how slow it took to fire a shot during the gun battle scenes was awesome as well.

Annoying parts are how the killer got to the places he did with everyone else letting him. By that I mean the kid didn't shoot him at point blank and the inspector didn't shoot him when he snuck into the house to kill the nobleman.

The whole movie felt like the situation in the US with Mexicans. Speak English and you don't belong here. Funny considering they're also white. Now they're both too busy getting enriched by those from the middle east and Africa. :p

[–] 3840x2160 (359) 6 years ago

I really liked this a lot. A slow evenly paced movie with just enough gore to make it interesting.
Agreed about the flintlocks. They seem to usually have endless ammo. My other gun peeve being semi-autos that keep clicking after the ammo is exhausted.
The thing I thought was weird was the posse was in pursuit of the bad guy but they never got their horses faster than a walk.

[–] jriley555 (8125) 6 years ago

a way to look at it is that the young private was already ambivalent about the whole thing, as we saw later with his reaction to shipping grain past starving people.

the inspector and feeny had been close comrades in service, he held the land owner and the insufferable lieutenant in contempt.

[–] Coleburg83 (684) 6 years ago

I agree, not bad. But not very good either.

It was extra distracting me because being familiar with regimental histories, the Connaught Rangers didn't serve in the Afghan war they alluded to.

[–] 2coolhipdude (114) 6 years ago

Don't know if you're an American, but there isn't a situation with Mexicans. Or race. It's about illegal aliens. We have Asians and Eastern Europeans coming to Canada and then crossing our border. Central and South Americans coming from the south. Then you have the ones who overstay their work visas. This is a site to discuss films, not politics. If you are going to go off topic, then at least use factual information.

[–] looper007 (1158) 5 years ago

It's another one of those films that is voted way too low on IMDB, it's on 6.8 but I'd have it at 7.5 at the most. Great performances all round especially from James Frecheville (Animal Kingdom, The Drop, Adore) for a Aussie actor, to pull off a Galway accent, while also speaking in Gaelic (as a Irishman, it's a tough Language to pull off) is pretty damn impressive. He also looked pretty bad ass during the whole film and I bought him as a top Solider.

Hugo Weaving is always great. Also great to see Stephen Rea in a small role. Barry Keoghan who's Ireland's next big thing is a bit wasted in a small role as a British Solider. Freddie Fox, Moe Dunford and Jim Broadbent play the bad guys perfectly. But overall it had the feel of the Aussie classic The Proposition for me. It's pretty bleak in places and rightly so when dealing with Famine. I loved the use of Gaelic for most of the film too.

Overall a very good watchable 100 minute film, not a classic or anything but a lot better then it's 6.8 on IMDB.