Clearly a labor of love, Irish writer-director Neil Jordan's biography of Michael Collins is an admirable tribute to his country's beloved patriot that sometimes verges on hagiography. Beginning with the brutally suppressed Easter Uprising of 1916, Jordan's film chronicles
Collins' (Liam Neeson) struggle for an independent Irish republic, from the organization of his fellow guerrilla warriors to his negotiation of the controversial treaty that would plunge his country into civil war and lead to his own assassination. History can be messy, particularly when it's the
history of a man to whom, it can (and will) be argued, the words
terrorist and
freedom figh...
Released:
1996
Rated:
R
Length:
117 mins