A simple crime Irish comedy, the name of which very accurately reflects the essence. The full paragraph in the sense: what is not intended here and what only "Irish motives" are not affected. Local ("domestic") mafiosi, their debtors, their American outposts, the IRA, Catholics, hostages, the family as a stronghold of everything and everything. In some places it's funny, but without frills. “Once Upon a Time in Ireland” is not enough.
The film is made by Terry George, director of good Hollywood films Hotel Rwanda and Forbidden Road and one of the best screenwriters in Britain. He wrote a million-dollar story “In the Name of the Father” and “The Boxer”, which became nominees and prize-winners of a whole block of prestigious film awards. Terry George's drama is probably better than comedy.
In the film, along with little-known well-known Irish actors, cool men Colm Mini (Layer Cake) and David Oh Hara (Tudors), the first in the role of a policeman, the second in the role of a mafia. The company is Brendan Fraser as an American of Irish blood, the brother of a local antiquarian. Fraser, by a completely fatal and incomprehensible coincidence, slipped from Hollywood stars of the first magnitude gradually into a low-budget and not first-rate cinema. I hope it's temporary. Many urged him to change his agent. He is a brilliant versatile actor with a rich track record and an army of fans. Some of the latter exclusively for cameo Fraser watched the first film “G.I.Goe”, shot by the same Stephen Sommers, who actually made him a star in the role of Rick O Connell in the trilogy “The Mummy”, where the current Mrs. Bond had warm feelings for him.
The film was released recently on DVD, bypassing the big screen. It can be seen once out of curiosity without much expectation.
5 out of 10