Fifty Dead Men Walking

The lead performances by Sir Ben, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Zegers are flawless....Interior and exterior shots of the streets and buildings are literally dripping with decay....will be avoided due to the perception of the exploitation of graphic mayhem there is a vital story here.....Powerful supporting work by Cannes award winner Kevin Zegers builds a firm foundation for the master Sir Ben.... ... Full Review

Skogland is a crisp and efficient storyteller.....McGartland in fact has disowned the movie, claiming in interviews.... ... Full Review

'Dead Men' a lively thriller....Among the film's more pleasant surprises is a strong, entirely credible turn by Rose McGowan as an IRA femme fatale.....Canadian director Kari Skogland ("The Stone Angel") makes good use of period music and location settings.... ... Full Review

Skogland is a crisp and efficient storyteller.....McGartland in fact has disowned the movie, claiming in interviews.... ... Full Review

Sturgess, with a creepy moustache that gives his character just the right amount of smarmy bravado, turns in a compelling and convincing performance.....The movie, shot it Ireland, has a gritty, documentary feel and a sharp, dramatic pulse that never really falters.... ... Full Review

This is a problematic movie about a problematic topic -....The cast fends for itself remarkably well:....Natalie Press and Canadian Kevin Zegers go well beyond the girlfriend/best pal routine and deepen the script's rather rote supply of loyalty tests..... ... Full Review

that the movie's chronology was wrong.....It was also a tribute to Sturgess's performance, which was authentic enough to evoke the kind of anger McGartland himself could expect....It wasn't because he is a bad actor.....It's because he's such a good one.....Jim Sturgess is a dead man walking.... ... Full Review

the film is too sympathetic to the IRA..... ... Full Review

the whole enterprise is a missed opportunity, with writer-director Kari Skogland seemingly unable to whip the compelling source material into a workable and rewarding movie.....Fifty Dead Men Walking is a largely uninvolving crime thriller that fails to do justice to the intriguing story of an informant within the IRA.....Sturgess and Kingsley, representing two different generations of British acting talent, deserve far better.....Finally, there is hope of a decent pay-off for the mundane, poorly structured ... Full Review

Fifty Dead Men Walking is an edge-of-seat thriller, a doomy romance and a grim documentary of terror and betrayal in the barbed-wire estates of bigoted Belfast.....unspools with the ghastly enthusiasm of a Hollywood thriller.....This is an appalling scenario for a film.... ... Full Review