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Fifty Dead Men Walking

  • 03-04-2009 9:54pm
    #1
    lukin
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    I think there hasn't been a thread on this here yet, hoping to see it at the weekend. I know we get sick of IRA films but this is one with a difference as it can't be accused of glamourising the republican "struggle" as it focuses on an IRA informer.


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Just saw the Late Review on BBC 2 talking about this along with Five Minutes of Heaven, they reckoned Fifty Dead Men Walking was the lesser film with rather crude, stylings more appropirate to a London gangster flick. All a bit obvious.


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    Five Minutes of Heaven is on BBC 2 this Sunday at 9pm.


  • #4
    Bottle_of_Smoke
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    lukin wrote: »
    I think there hasn't been a thread on this here yet, hoping to see it at the weekend. I know we get sick of IRA films but this is one with a difference as it can't be accused of glamourising the republican "struggle" as it focuses on an IRA informer.

    I doubt that. British secret service treated their informers like sh*t so I'd imagine this is going to be about how they f*cked up his life. I didn't read the book the films based on but I read "unsung hero" which is about a different informer's experiences. He's against the IRA but you get the impression toward the end he's more hateful to the british secret service

    Like the way "in the name of the father" isn't pro IRA but so incredibilly anti-British government it might as well be.


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