Movie Information
Overall Rank: 7417
Average Rating: 2.5/4
# of Ratings: 32
Theatrical Release Date: 11/16/2005
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Conor McEvoy, Ruth McCabe, Owen Roe, Brendan Gleeson
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3/4
goodfellamike - wrote on 09/20/2008
Neil Jordan's engaging direction guides the story along and it gets a major boost from Cillian Murphy's sympathetic performance, but jarring shifts in tone hurt it. Final Grade: B
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3/4
Cillian Murphy is a Chameleon
Franz Patrick - wrote on 10/11/2008
Cillian Murphy is a chameleon. Instead of playing a man on the run from zombies (”28 Days Later”), a psychiatrist who wants to drive Gotham City into madness (”Batman Begins, “The Dark Knight”), an assassin who terrorizes Rachel McAdams (”Red Eye”), and one of the chosen few whose goal is to ignite the sun (”Sunshine”), this time around he plays a sympathetic transvestite whose mission is to find his mother in London. Even though the approach of the film is slanted toward the comedic side, there’s a certain sadness and tragedy that lingers throughout the picture. The only main flaw that I could point out is the middle portion is a bit saggy. The little adventures that Murphy’s character (Patrick “Kitten” Braden) went through are interesting but some of them …
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