Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by mr grits (A) on November 11, 2010 at 19:07:36

IRA or UVF....it didn't matter, Men killed just to obsessively settle the score between Catholics and Protestants. In this story we see a young Neeson join the UVF to become a man and garner the adulation of his peers. He asks for a "killing assignment" and gets one. He and his three mates set out to punish a Catholic "yard worker" who had threatened to hurt a Protestant worker there. They steal a car and make their way to his home where Neeson (14 at the time of the crime) shoots the oldest brother three times in the head through a window while the younger brother (Nesbitt at about eight) remains frozen just feet away. After Nesbitt's brother dies in the hospital his mother blames him repeatedly until her untimely death a few years later. Nesbitt is eaten alive with the recriminations for 33 years then suddenly has the opportunity to meet Neeson to film a television documentary on "reconciling" the past of Northern Ireland.

We see the anguish and self-torture Nesbitt suffers during this time and the uncertainty that Neeson suffers in light of serving just twelve years for stealing a car and not a murder. Nesbitt is the true star as he absolutely shines as the self-inflicted man driven to exact revenge from a man he has never seen since that night.

This is an actor's film with the script and character of Nesbitt far out-weighing that of any other cast member. His obsession oozes from his every pore and makes me glad I wasn't actually born in Ireland.

Highly recommended.


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