Bloody Sunday (2002)

Bloody Sunday: Directed by Paul Greengrass. With James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds. A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

“This is a film with a terrible nerve, from the press conferences in the Sunday morning, through the preparations for the march and the preparations of the military, and forward to the scenes in the hospital afterwards. The camera is working in a way, there you definitely can feel the gloomy weather and the excitement.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s also a 1972 feeling about it, which doesnu0026#39;t feel acted, but like a documentary. James Nesbitt is making a tremendous job as the MP and when you notice that this man hasnu0026#39;t got an Oscar, the Oscar institution definitely seems like the stupid joke it is.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only thing you can have against this Paul Greengrassu0026#39; movie is the tendency in the end, where the relative documentary objectivity in the beginning, moves over to tendency. The unionists and the British government remain the totally bad guys and the catholics are the eternal martyrs. They might have been that this Sunday, but the conflict of Northern Ireland is a little more complicated.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHowever, this is definitely more exciting than most of what you see in the action genre.”