Average Rating: 7.9/10
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Fresh: 95 | Rotten: 8
Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 2
Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.
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Paul Greengrass (The Theory of Flight) wrote and directed this powerful look at January 30, 1972 -- better known as "Bloody Sunday." Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts to organize a peaceful protest after Protestant leaders imprison Catholics without a trial. His actions conflict with hard-line IRA members who have no interest in a "peaceful" response, as well as the military men responsible for keeping the peace who are led by Major General Robert Ford (Tim Pigott-Smith) and Brigadier Patrick
Oct 11, 2002 Limited
Apr 22, 2003
$0.6M
Paramount Classics
All Critics (106) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (96) | Rotten (8) | DVD (13)
Stunning.
Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization.
Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary.
As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper.
It's not just one of the best but also one of the most important films of the year.
Leaves you dazed and shaken, as if you, too, had been caught in the swirl of events that led to unspeakable sadness and a lot more bloodshed.
Powerful retelling of 1972 demonstrations.
Time has offered the Troubles perspective, investigation and pop-culture outlets (U2′s "Sunday Bloody Sunday"). But Paul Greengrass's film spoke to how reason meant absolutely nothing when rage reigned on either side of the line.
Greengrass has deliberately chosen to provoke an emotional rather than intellectual response with his film -- but sometimes provocation is much preferred to the British media's maintenance of the status quo.
Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique.
Comparisons with The Battle of Algiers are not inappropriate.
Intense and difficult, but rewarding.
As atuações viscerais e a direção pseudo-documental recriam com contudência um dos episódios mais revoltantes da história da luta irlandesa contra a dominação britânica.
Captures the horrors of a civil rights march taking a wrong turn in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Sunday, January 30, 1972.
This is tragedy in its rawest form: bloody chaos I couldn't help but watch. . . . The tension is palpable and the brutality is immediate.
The immediacy is overwhelming...an extraordinarily powerful film.
An amazing feat of movie making, "Bloody Sunday" leaves you stunned.
No victories here, but Greengrass' film is a triumph in anguish.
The audience is placed right in the center of events in a multi-sensual, horrific 'you are there' virtual reality of social protest that grabs you and never lets go.
The film exudes a universality that may apply to any conflict, especially any that provokes people to become killing machines in the name of nationalism.
Felt it a bit lengthy, but otherwise incredible. Of course I was never aware of such historical incident. But that's no news, is it? However, I found it a bit exaggerated when Ivan compares the incident to the Amritsar Massacre (aka Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, which also happened to be a Sunday). Worth a watch, but
June 1, 2010Super Reviewer
Greengrass is just plain and simply, the man. He has the Midas touch in which everything he touches, turns to gold. In this gripping retelling of the events in 1972, Greengrass takes memories so wrought with emotion, and presents them in a way that seems not only fresh, but also fair. While he could have easily made a
October 12, 2011Super Reviewer
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