'71
20146.8movie
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Starz
PhiloA young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
StarzPhiloA young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
All of which comes at the expense of characterisation: some of the players in ‘’71’, including Gary and especially a plum-voiced officer, feel thinly sketched. ... All of which comes at the expense of characterisation: some of the players…
Led by a fine performance by Jack O’Connell, ’71 balances edge-of-your-seat thrills with surprisingly balanced scenes of drama. Evokes the work of Paul Greengrass and Jim Sheridan. ... Led by a fine performance by Jack O'Connell, '71…
If the film has an agenda, it is merely to show that these combatants are obscenely young and uniformly disempowered – one ripe line describes army life as “rich cunts telling dumb cunts to kill poor cunts”. Inevitably, there will be cries…
