Route Irish
Synopsis
An ex-soldier tries to uncover the circumstances of his best friend's death. Fergus and Frankie met on the first day of school and the pair stayed close from then on. Both had a career in the military, and when Fergus left the SAS and landed a lucrative job with a private security firm in Baghdad, he persuaded Frankie to join him. In 2007 Fergus is back home in Liverpool, and learns that Frankie has been killed on Route Irish, the dangerous road running between Baghdad airport and the city's Green Zone. Raging with grief and highly suspicious of the official explanation of events, Fergus begins his own investigation with the help of Frankie's widow, Rachel.
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Mark Womack, I've never seen you in anything before, but you're incredible. Wow, a mighty performance.
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Route Irish is the road between the airport and the Green Zone in Iraq during the war. Irish Marine wants to find the truth about his friend who was killed and works out his conspiracy theory. If you've seen Zero Dark Thirty you'll see where the Irish learnt torturing and what's the most effective. The film is direct, and bluntly but greatly acted.
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Excellent conspiracy thriller done as only Ken Loach knows how to.
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"I didn't believe in this story of a man's search to find the truth about his friend's violent death in Iraq, but felt that some of the acting was excellent, very natural. Not a film I'll rush to see again though."
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Pretty hard hitting look at the corruption behind the private secutiry forces working in Iraq...
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Following the unusually whimsical (though utterly terrific) Looking For Eric, social realist filmmaker Ken Loach is back to recognisably serious and gritty territory with Route Irish. Named after the road linking Baghdad’s infamous Green Zone with its airport (apparently the most dangerous road on the planet), Loach and frequent screenwriter Paul Laverty vent their anger on the privatisation of war (and the according lack of accountability) in another compelling collaboration. Those familiar with Loach might find the handful of shootouts surprising (yes, you read that correctly, shootouts in a Ken Loach film), but the acclaimed director instils the whole picture with his usual naturalism and cinéma vérité style, regardless.
Continued at: www.flixcapacitor.co.uk/film-review/route-irish-2010
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Mark Womack, I've never seen you in anything before, but you're incredible. Wow, a mighty performance.
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Horrendous drama undeserving of it's setting.
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Ken Loach är noga med personporträtten och framför allt är huvudpersonen lyckad i denna filmatisering och beskrivning av vår tids legoknektar med mycket blod på sina händer
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A rare misstep from Loach.