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Black '47 (2018) N
Feeney, an Irish man who's served in British army overseas, returns home and finds famine stricken Ireland. Most of the locals are suffering and Brits running the things are only making things worse. Feeney's mother has died after being evicted into the cold and his brother has been hanged for resisting the eviction. Feeney's decides to seek justice for his family.
Black '47 is your typical story about a man seeking revenge or justice and being hunted by the law. It's like one of many westerns, First Blood or John Wick set in mid-19th century Ireland. There's the mandatory history between Feeney and one of the men chasing him, there's some lecturing about historical wrongs and endless supply of predictable turns of events.
Writing is lazy and there's no real attempt to build any characters beyond couple of adjectives. Actions is OK but especially the knife fights would have needed more blood (I don't like clean violence in otherwise gritty films). Soundtrack is definitely Irish but also quite bland and forgettable. Settings are great and some of the scenes look really beautiful (like the one I took the picture from).
Concept is interesting but it would need better characters to work. Now it's just a mediocre B-action film that (probably) pretends to be something more.
Feeney, an Irish man who's served in British army overseas, returns home and finds famine stricken Ireland. Most of the locals are suffering and Brits running the things are only making things worse. Feeney's mother has died after being evicted into the cold and his brother has been hanged for resisting the eviction. Feeney's decides to seek justice for his family.
Black '47 is your typical story about a man seeking revenge or justice and being hunted by the law. It's like one of many westerns, First Blood or John Wick set in mid-19th century Ireland. There's the mandatory history between Feeney and one of the men chasing him, there's some lecturing about historical wrongs and endless supply of predictable turns of events.
Writing is lazy and there's no real attempt to build any characters beyond couple of adjectives. Actions is OK but especially the knife fights would have needed more blood (I don't like clean violence in otherwise gritty films). Soundtrack is definitely Irish but also quite bland and forgettable. Settings are great and some of the scenes look really beautiful (like the one I took the picture from).
Concept is interesting but it would need better characters to work. Now it's just a mediocre B-action film that (probably) pretends to be something more.