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Nothing Personal

1995, Movie, NR, 85 mins

Nothing Personal: Review

NOTHING PERSONAL | ALL OUR FAULT
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A fast and bloody ride through the embattled streets of Belfast, 1975. Irish cinematographer turned director Thaddeus O'Sullivan once again turns his attention to Irish Protestants (the community profiled in his well-received, turn of the century drama DECEMBER BRIDE, only this time the setting is a bit more volatile. Just as the barricades separating Protestant sections of town from Catholic are about to come down, an IRA bomb goes off in a Protestant pub. Twenty-four hours of street violence and bloody mayhem follow, destroying the lives of three friends: Kenny (James Frain), the leader of a Protestant Loyalist paramilitary squad; Ginger (Ian Hart), Kenny's ultraviolent and possibly psychotic lieutenant; and the Catholic Liam (John Lynch), a boyhood friend of Kenny's who becomes the innocent target of the squad's revenge. At a time when nearly every film coming out of Ireland seems to deal (either directly or indirectly) with the Troubles, the fact that O'Sullivan's film still feels fresh is remarkable. The film's intense, microcosmic scope is effective, as is the shift to a Protestant -- though essentially nonpartisan -- perspective. But in the end, what's riveting is the way he renders a brutal "holy war" in purely human terms: kneecaps are shot off, families are destroyed and children carry guns and die. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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