PugsAreUglyButPretty

I cried.

It left me hollow, angry and upset. But that comes from living through a teenage where this was happening in my community, my county, my country and my community said nothing. My parents who are highly educated ash's erudite told me nothing of this. Instead they were obsessed with me going to mass every week in a Church that carried out this barbarism.

I'm sick to my core and can only weep for the stunning silence of my parents, my grandparents whose generations supported, condoned and allowed this to happen.

An amazing performance by Cillian. The silences, the pain they are portrayed with a humanity that lifted the movie. It could have been so much more grim a movie, yet the ending was both truncated and uplifting in a way. The plot could have been drawn out a little more, but I'm quibbling for a single star deducted.

I gave it three stars for the fact that on a $15k budget, the sound, cinematography and visuals are quite well done. However almost from the start it felt like it was a movie made for new army recruits to "get" why they have signed up. The repetitive droning voice-over ruined this for me. The 12 minute run was skipping from one thing to the next without any real character development. Watch it as a Star Wars curio, otherwise give it a miss.

This was a disappointing movie in that there were far too many 5 minute and longer fight scenes throughout the movie. It was just tedious. It meant that the small degree of plot development was lost. I ended up skipping forward in 15 second bursts, especially one 10 minute long sequence. Maybe there are people out there who are entertained by endless fight scenes, but I'm not.