An average movie

Personally, even though he hasn’t done anything really amazing for at least a decade, I always been a huge fan of Kevin Spacey. Still, you wonder somehow how he got involved in some of his projects like this one for example. Indeed, how on Earth did they come up to cast him as a famous Irish crime lord?!? Also the fact that I saw before, about the same subject, ‘The General’ directed by John Boorman, a really better movie, it didn’t help either. Still, this Martin Cahill was quite a fascinating character and the whole thing was still fairly entertaining. Another neat thing about this flick was the nice supporting cast (Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz). Indeed, here, you get to see a young Colin Farrell just before his breakthrough with ‘Tigerland’ and, even more interesting, you get to see Christoph Waltz who was completely unknown at the time and it will take almost a decade before we would eventually get acquainted with this actor thanks to ‘Inglourious Basterds’. Eventually, the whole thing felt like a rather half-baked project based on a fascinating story involving some interesting actors, even though half of them were rather miscast. Still, I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10