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    Michael Collins (1997)

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    1916: Michael Collins is a young Irish volunteer whose participation in the Easter Uprising fuels his desire to see Ireland free of British rule. With his friend, Harry Boland, Collins sets out to create a resistance movement and a strategy that will bring independence to fruition.

    This is Neil Jordan’s screen biography about the founder of the IRA, an intellectual who virtually invented urban terrorism and bombed his way to talks in Downing Street before being assassinated by his own side in 1922.

    The movie begins with an impressively filmed Easter Uprising, in which Jordan appears to demolish Dublin, yet there’s also an even-handedness when it comes to depicting and simplifying the political struggle for Irish independence.

    As Collins, Liam Neeson fills a room with his charm and menace, while Alan Rickman is superbly cast as Eamon De Valera, a fanatic in pebble glasses.

    Julia Roberts, however, looks wispy and hopelessly lost, the victim of a crass casting decision made in the hope of boosting the box office.

    Michael Collins
    Liam Neeson
    Kitty Kiernan
    Julia Roberts
    Harry Boland
    Aidan Quinn
    Joe O’Reilly
    Ian Hart
    Ned Broy
    Stephen Rea
    Patrick Pearse
    John Kenny
    Eamon De Valera
    Alan Rickman
    Soames
    Charles Dance

    Director
    Neil Jordan

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