Michael Collins Reviews

Bad history perhaps, but Neeson's performance borders on the brilliant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

While the film is unflinching in its depiction of the brutality of both the English and the Irish, Jordan pointedly dissociates his hero from any actual ugliness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Intelligent, enormously accomplished and seriously problematic, Neil Jordan's ambitious account of the activities of arguably the central figure in Ireland's painful, bloody fight for independence from the British Empire has a great deal to offer...

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Neil Jordan uses very broad and movie-ish strokes to paint his portrait of the busy, eponymous hero.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Be sure to watch "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" if you watch "Michael Collins"

| Original Score: 4/5

This is Jordan's most ambitious and satisfying movie -- a thriller with a real sense of scale, pace, menace and moral import.

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A bold and rousing historical epic.

| Original Score: 8/10

| Original Score: 3/5

An intellectually well thought out work that presents the events of those turbulent days in Irish history with clear, vivid reality, from costumes to sets to location.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Neeson's a force of nature in Neil Jordan's near-excellent historical epic.

| Original Score: 4/5

Instead of being a slow, dull historical drama, it is actually an exciting action drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A way to relate pivotal events to an audience who probably knows little about the Irish republic's creation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

| Original Score: 3/5

Played with great magnetism and triumphant bluster by Liam Neeson, the film's Michael Collins easily lives up to his nickname.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

| Original Score: 4/5

Mr. Neeson's performance is matched by the finely detailed look and feel of Mr. Jordan's direction, and the melancholy Dublin he has re-created.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Makes it clear that it is far easier to be a terrorist than to be an emissary of peace.

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Liam Neeson is perfectly cast as the man known to his comrades as "The Big Fellow," a charming ladies' man whose ruthless guerrilla tactics blended with altruism and a fervent love of country.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Liam Neeson as Collins gives an Oscar-caliber performance as well this Belfast-born man might.

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Liam Neeson was the only man Jordan ever wanted to play this role, and for good reason.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4