Veronica Guerin (2003)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 64
Cate Blanchett gives another great performance in a movie that doesn't shed much light on its title character.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 22
Cate Blanchett gives another great performance in a movie that doesn't shed much light on its title character.
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher take on the real-life story of an assassinated Irish journalist in the dramatic thriller Veronica Guerin. Cate Blanchett appears as the title character, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. The movie picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects
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Cast
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Cate Blanchett
Veronica Guerin -
Gerard McSorley
John Gilligan -
Ciarán Hinds
John "The Coach" Trayno... -
Brenda Fricker
Bernadette Guerin -
Barry Barnes
Graham Turley -
Joe Hanley
Holland -
David Murray
Bowden -
David Herlihy
Peter "Fatso"Mitchell -
Karl Shiels
Gilligan Gang Member #1 -
Barry McEvoy
Gilligan Gang Member #2 -
Alan Devine
Gerry "The Monk" Hutch -
Gerry O'Brien
Martin "The General" Ca... -
Don Wycherley
Chris Mulligan -
Simon O'Driscoll
Cathal Guerin -
Paudge Behan
Brian Meahan -
Colin Farrell
Spanky McSpank -
Darragh Kelly
Terry Fagan
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All Critics (142) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (64) | DVD (21)
Well-meaning but simpleminded.
Top CriticBlanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.
While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.
As movie material, Veronica Guerin's life could have benefited from the gutsy probing the woman herself was renowned for.
You don't need subtlety for a movie like this -- which is fortunate considering that Schumacher is the director -- but you need a kind of craft that Schumacher doesn't possess.
The movie never adequately explains the inner conflicts that led its relentless-reporter heroine to die.
This is no Erin Brockovich.
Cate Blanchett gives a tour de force performance as Veronica Guerin under Joel Schumacher's direction of a no-nonsense script by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue.
Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school.
...a respectful quasi-documentary
Blanchett nearly saves it, but it's too much a plastic-Jesus biopic.
While this is a movie that deserves a mildly favourable recommendation, it's also nothing short of a catastrophic fumble and an incredible lost opportunity.
A moving but gritty story of willpower and sacrifice that stops pleasingly short of a Hollywood varnish-job.
If you take out Cate Blanchett's amazing performance, you're left with a dull husk of a film from a director who knows little about filmmaking.
Cate Blanchett is most likely the greatest actress working in film today.
Sporting a perfect Irish accent, [Cate Blanchett] imbues the character with a lot more presence than the script (and the director?) called for.
Guerin has the outward appearance of a quaint but brutal Irish gem like the works of Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan, but looks are deceiving
Veronica Guerin is a sharp study of the vices that sometimes goad us to virtue.
Has its virtues, but they're the kind you can buy.
What you will take away from this movie is another fine performance by Blanchett.
Cate Blanchett [gives] a performance that gets under your skin.
[Joel] Schumacher remains a filmmaker with the potential to surprise.
Por pouco não 'mata' Veronica Guerin pela segunda vez ao macular sua memória.
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