RESURRECTION MAN |
| CREDITS: Director: Marc Evans Cast: Stuart Townsend, James Nesbitt, John Hannah &
Brenda Fricker GB 1997 (18) INTRODUCTION: We may be just a little bit too early into the peace process for this sort of movie's time to come. Analysing the brutal past so soon can only dredge up bad feeling and memories that for the time being at least might best be forgotten. And what memories... SYNOPSIS: In the course of any conflict there arise those who seem to take just a little too much pleasure in the atrocities that they commit. The Shankhill Butchers certainly fit into this category and this movie attempts to tell the story of their charismatic and psychopathic leader (Townsend). REVIEW: A shocking study of the culture of violence, at least I hope that is what it is otherwise it's a nasty little movie that revels in its own violence. And what a smorgasbord of violence it is. There is physical violence, sectarian violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, institutionalised violence and last but not least psychological violence. Everything's here for your connoisseur of violence. It even retells the old tale that movies beget violence. I can't really offer you much guidance on this one, go see it and make up your own mind. One for the psychopaths out there. |