Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Benedito Dias Rodrigues I has to confess that l didn't like when the cinema glorofying bad persons of our history,it's certanly make them actually a kind of hero for many young generation ,but as form of study of personality is helpful,this infamous thief and his gang was magnificently portraited by the great Boorman as always in old days style and more made a true gem of the real picture mean to be,but great crooks don't has a long life and them left us for good....so fast they are replaced!!!Resume:First watch: 1999 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 8.25

mairtin-2 A craven, cowardly film. Director Boorman shows Cahill burglarizing rich houses, but the male occupant is shown being unfaithful with the nanny, thats all right then. The forensic scientist investigating Cahill is blown up in his car, but he is rat faced sourpuss, and doesn't look like a nice man, so thats all right too. The Beits, owner of Russborrough House, made their money by exploiting 'darkies' digging up diamonds, so it's okay to rob priceless art from them and hide it in a bunker in the Wicklow mountains. The Garda kill his ferrets and are implicated in his murder. The moral equivalencing is sickening, Boorman looks for a hit film, but doesn't have the guts to stand against the criminality of the generals gang, who terrorized the neighbourhood, and unleashed another wave of scumbags upon Dublin. He even liaised with the Generals son while making it. Disgusting. Shame on him for his cowardice.

Robert Aber Well, some differences: Martin drives a four-cylinder "mini" instead of a gas-guzzler Ford SUV. Carmela's ready to defenestrate philandering Tony whereas Martin's such a good husband/father that his wife willingly lets Martin sleep with the woman he fantasizes over - and isn't jealous.Martin, true criminal mastermind, isn't above collecting welfare. He wears clothes Michael Moore might wear. Tony's always checking the mirror and would "sleep with the fishes" before he'd take welfare. Martin has better taste, though. Would Tony rip off a Vermeer? Doubt it.("Rubens. He's the tit man.") The General is smart, funny, brutal and great as any "Soprano" episode.Aside from needing "closed captioning" in order to keep up with machine-gun-like Dublin dialect, it's one terrific movie.

bob the moo Martin Cahill is an Irish thief but is generally a well mannered man with a good sense of humour. His actions draw the attention of the police, although he always manages to stay one step ahead of them. However his life is one of crime and violence and a major art robbery brings him to be the focus of a police investigation and brings the IRA demanding a cut. When a deal is made with the UVF Cahill's position becomes increasingly untenable.Films about the troubles (or around the troubles) in Northern Ireland usually tend to put me off because they often wear their colours very large on their sleeves and seem more interesting in scoring political points than telling a good story. However this happily manages to avoid that and tells a Robin Hood style tale that is fairly well told.Cahill is a little romanticised in that he has a great sense of humour and is very likeable, but the film doesn't hold back from showing the violence of the life with Cahill having to do nasty stuff as well. For me it worked so well because of the gentle comedy that ran through the story, but it still held plenty of drama and the characters (especially Cahill) held my attention easily.Gleeson gives a great performance. He has got Cahill's little habits down really well – the covering of the face at every opportunity etc. Dunbar is good as are most of the support cast. Voight is an interesting bit of casting that is only used occasionally. However it is really Gleeson's show and his good humour carries the film easily.Overall this film is very entertaining with a dark edge to it. The story is very enjoyable itself but with the dark humour provided by Gleeson it is even better.