Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Micransix Crappy film

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Irishchatter Now I have to admit while watching the movie, I hated the unsteadiness of the camera and the fact the whole film was skipping scenes abruptly. It made me feel uneasy seriously. It was interesting that the British army just lied about the protesters that some of them had firearms. I bet when they told the police about what happened, I say inside, they were peeing their pants. The ones who killed those unarmed citizens should be in jail for live. It was such a cowardly action to just kill whoever was on their path, the 14 people who died that faithful day, didn't deserve this. The families should've been given a apology like a year after it happened. David Cameron (Brexit Escapee) shouldn't be the one giving it 38 years later, it should've been the army. To be honest, that was wayyyy too late, it won't bring back the victims. I honestly can't imagine how stressful and upsetting it is for the families to have their loved ones being killed in a pointless act. Also the ones who miraculously survived and will remember this tragedy for the rest of their lives. May the 14 men rest in peace<3

Rameshwar IN Reviewed December 2011I am an admirer of Paul Greengrass movies mainly for the editing and camera work which led me to watch this. An up close account of the tragic events that turned a peaceful Irish 1972 Civil rights march to a deadly massacre which ended with 13 civilians killed and twice injured kick-starting a political blame game. Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt), the Member of Parliament for the Irish town of Derry leads the charge of a Civil rights march. The British government bans the protest making the march illegal and also involves the military to crush the situation. Like any other riot anywhere else in the world, one thing leads to another involving rowdy hooligans, trigger happy policing and groups with vested interests. The movie divides its focus on a close look from Ivan Cooper's stand point, the British Military view and a couple of families that were affected by this day. Keeping in mind that it would get offensive for the real victims if there is even a single point in the script that justifies the military action, the writers and the directer tread carefully and mostly plays safe. Paul Greengrass shows his early taste for editing and camera work, but his talent is not on best display here. James Nesbitt does a terrific job as the man edging on emotional crisis with the way the day has turned out, but has to maintain his saneness and composure to concentrate on the operational details. Sometimes gets a bit melodramatic and too emotional, but they must have been apt for the circumstance. Doesn't push it as hard as it could have and gets a little biased on the victims side. It has great moments placed in between mediocre ones. I wouldn't say it is a great movie, but does enough to use the emotional depth of this true story.

charlieandmargaret Bloody Sunday 8 Nov 1987: At annual Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, IRA bomb murdered 12 townspeople and injured another 63. (a 13th, school principal Ronnie Hill, died subsequently). Another IRA bomb (four times larger) was hidden beside the Remembrance service at Tullyhommon, Co Fermanagh conducted by the Boys' and Girls' Brigade, but failed to explode. 4 Feb 1979: Patrick Mackin (60), a retired Prison Officer, and his wife Violet (58), were both shot dead by the IRA at their home in Oldpark Road, Belfast. Robert McCartney was beaten and stabbed to death on Sunday 30th January 2005 in an attack by the Provisional IRA. The five sisters of Catholic Robert McCartney have defied the IRA and waged a campaign for justiceBloody Monday 31 Jul 1972, the IRA detonated three large bombs in the village of Claudy, County Londonderry, murdering nine villagers, including an 8- year-old girl, Kathryn Eakin and Willie Temple aged16. 5 Jan1976: Kingsmills: 10 Protestant civilians were lined up and shot dead by the IRA, when they were returning from work at Kingsmills, near Bessbrook, County Armagh.Bloody Tuesday 9 Feb 1971: Five workers were murdered by an IRA landmine near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone. 12 Jun 1973; Six Protestant civilians, aged between 60 and 76, were murdered by an IRA car-bomb in Railway Street, Coleraine. 7 Apr 1981: Joanne Mathers (29), a census enumerator, was shot dead by the IRA in the Gobnascale, Derry, while she was collecting census returns. Bloody Wednesday 7 Apr 1976: Three members of a Protestant family were killed by the IRA bomb in their drapery business below the Herron family home. 2 Feb 1977: Jeffrey Agate (59), then Managing Director of the American Du Pont factory in Derry was shot dead by the IRA outside his home. 21 Jan 1981: Norman Stronge (86), a former speaker of the Stormont parliament, and James Stronge (48), his son, were murdered by the IRA in an attack on their home.Bloody Thursday 8 Mar 1973: The IRA car bombs exploded in London, killing one person and injuring over 200, one was planted at the 'Old Bailey' court. Among those found guilty was Gerry Kelly. 28 Feb 1985: Nine RUC Officers were murdered by IRA mortars fired at Newry police station, County Down.Bloody Friday 21 Jul 1972: The IRA's Bloody Friday, Belfast: 26 street explosions; 11 shoppers dead; 130 mutilated. 17 Feb 1978: 12 people were burnt to death when the IRA attacked the annual dinner of the Irish Collie Club with petrol cans packed around a mortar bomb at the La Mon House Hotel. 7 Jun 1996: Garda Jerry McCabe (Irish police), was shot dead by the IRA at Adare, Co Limerick, Republic of Ireland.Bloody Saturday 20 Mar 1993: The IRA exploded two bombs in litter bins in Bridge Street, Warrington, England, murdering Jonathan Ball aged 3 years, mortally wounding Timothy Parry aged 12 years and injuring 56 shoppers. 23 Oct 1993 – two IRA bombers disguised as delivery men entered Frizzell's fish shop on the Shankill, and murdered nine customers, including two schoolgirls. 15 Aug 1998: 31 people murdered by 'real' IRA car bomb placed in Omagh on the busiest shopping day of the year. The dead include 2 unborn girls, 2 babies, and 5 children.

jzappa Both sides concur that the eponymous civil rights demonstration in Derry, Northern Ireland, ended with a skirmish between some of the demonstrators and British army paratroopers. Ultimately, 13 demonstrators were dead and 14 in the hospital, one of whom later died. None of the casualties were British troops. A formal inquest proclaimed that the soldiers had defended its position against armed demonstrators. Some of the soldiers involved were later honored by the crown.Outside this understanding, there's a dispute so profound and indignant that three decades later Bloody Sunday is still an open gash in the lingering, disputed account of the British in Northern Ireland. Paul Greengrass' Golden Bear-winning film is shot on 16mm, made in the manner of a documentary. It encompasses roughly 24 hours, beginning on Saturday evening, and its central character is Ivan Cooper, a civil rights organizer in Derry. He was a Protestant MP from the nationalist Social Democratic Labour Party. Most of the 10,000 demonstrators on that Sunday would be Catholic. That a Protestant led them reveals the separation in the north between those who stood in unity with their co-religionists, and those of all beliefs who just wanted the British out.Cooper is played by James Nesbitt as a completely excellent guy, hopeful, diligent, who walks boldly through hazardous streets and has a good remark for everyone. He knows the day's demonstration has been prohibited by the British government but anticipates no conflict, as it will be diplomatic and peaceful. As Cooper distributes flyers in the streets, Greengrass intercuts measures by the British army, which is fully resolute to take a muscular position against "hooliganism." Several British soldiers have been killed by the IRA, and this is an opportunity to settle scores. The British continue giving themselves tell-tale indications of how to prevent violence when they say things like, "If they see the Paras, that'll inflame the situation." So basically, the people demonstrating for their rights will only become violent if the troops try to stop them from demonstrating for their rights. Which they do. So the British knew the truth before the atrocity even occurred.Greengrass also establishes some other characters, including a young man who kisses his girlfriend goodbye and assures his mother no hurt will come to him, classic threatening omens in a movie. And we meet the Derry police chief, troubled by the ferocious doggedness of the soldiers and asks, not irrationally, if it wouldn't be more prudent to just allow the march because it's clearly going to carry on anyhow. Greengrass reconstructs proceedings with striking realism. When he shows a movie marquee promoting the Schlesinger film Sunday Bloody Sunday, it's a tiny anomaly, a deliberate shot in a movie that aims for cinema verite. He's served by the incidence of thousands of volunteer extras, some having demonstrated on Bloody Sunday and are relatively playing themselves.Cooper and the other influentials are on a truck which pilots the procession, and from their POV we can see that when the march avoids the army's spot, some hotheads instead start to throw rocks at them. At Major General's headquarters, commands are given to counter decisively. Data lines are obscured, orders are hazy as they dispatch down the pecking order, and soon rubber bullets and gas grenades are substituted by the shatter of actual bullets. Once this begins, we get the truest visceral sense of how difficult it must be to resist physical retaliation, and thus the true profundity of pacifism.Greengrass sees marchers struggling to control some of their comrades who are armed, but his film is unmistakable in its conviction that the British fired first and without mercy, and he shows one injured demonstrator being eliminated execution-style. One of the marchers is based on Gerald Donaghey, who, after being wounded, was searched twice, first by doctors, then taken to an army section where he died. Soldiers then "discovered" nail bombs on his person that had been "overlooked" in the earlier searches. This is part of a frantic effort by the army to plant evidence and validate a slaughter. OK, there are two sides to the story, but 14 dead marchers alongside a complete lack of dead or wounded soldiers seems telling. The Greengrass standpoint reproduces the rage of the anti-British groups, and the army's self-satisfaction after being acquitted in the initial investigation was simply infuriating. This raw, ultimately brutalizing tragedy is an extremely valuable vision of what occurred that day. And as an act of filmmaking, it's stunning: A sense of urgent and present-tense reality pervades every powerhouse moment.