Saturday, October 5, 2013

Shadow Dancer 2012

Shadow Dancer     Colette McVeigh and her family were grief stricken in the 1973 when she asked her younger brother to go out for cigarettes for their dad and he was killed.  He was an innocent victim of the conflict in Belfast involving the IRA.  The family joined the insurgency after their loss.  Twenty years later, Colette has a son of her own.  In 1993, she is brought in to see an agent of MI5 after a failed bombing attempt in the London tube.  She is forced to become a double agent or go to prison for 25 years and have her son taken into child protective services.  Suspicions are immediately aroused when her brother’s secret operation is ambushed.
     As soon as this film was over, all I could say was, what happened?  A lot of plot twists and turns, believable in the beginning but then hurried without sufficient explanation at the end.  3* (This movie is OK)

102 min, Drama directed by James Marsh with Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Brid Brennan, Gillian Anderson, David Wilmot, Domhnall Gleeson, Aidan Gillen.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 6.2 out of 10, 81% critic 54% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.



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