Dead Shot

It doesn't help, when giving birth, your girlfriend's slaughtered, by a soldier who you now want hung, drawn, quartered, since you have your own connections, it's not too long before directions, take you overseas, traversing hostile borders. In parallel, a new recruit enlists (albeit unwillingly), into a group who aims to halt, prevent, desist, all the bloodshed and the torment, caused by terror, threat and ferment, to ensure that law and order can persist. And so unstoppable is drawn to the unmoving, and lives are cancelled out, with both sides losing, it's not all that long ago, when dogmas battled toe to toe, but those troubles left a mark and there's still bruising.

Fine performances all round, deposits you back into a time you'd rather not be reminded of if I'm honest.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

This seems to be the very brutal message in Dead Shot. This is what the critics would call gritty realism, but I just call it honest film making. It gives us a glimpse into the warring factions of governments and rebels and the men that will take it too far to see it through. Charles and Thomas Guard.keep us sometimes uncomfortably close to these people and their brothers in arms as characters on both sides watch what they started fighting for transition to new bosses and directives until the lines have been blurred so much that you wonder who, if anyone we should be rooting for. It is an excellent lesson in grief and revenge, and well worth the watch.

A story within a story of a former IRA member who was trying flee with his pregnant wife but in their escape his wife is accidentally killed by a solider but he now has to rejoin the terror unit in order to carry out acts of terrorism in London to exact revenge on the soldier who kill his wife and unborn child. It was good watch because the premise of the story was terrorism, revenge and counter intelligence all wrapped in two persons. The soldier and the former IRA member. Honestly I never wanted someone to get their comeuppance so bad in a film they way I wanted a terrorist to kill the soldier who killed his pregnant wife. The ending had me feeling a little frustrated until it didn't (no spoilers) A definite recommend of a solid one time watch.

Dead Shot, while showing the violence of the period, manages to bring out a humanity in the characters that breaks the heart The film is splendid Dark, hard, heartbreaking and the cast does a great job, first and foremost a Colin Morgan who again shows his innate gifts and comes on screen as Michael and not as an actor acting, bringing out his immense pain.

Sometimes I just don't understand with whose eyes films are viewed Inspired by the novel The road to Balcombe Street by SP Moysey, about the real events of 1975, Dead Shot catapults us into the darkness of the period

Dead shot deserves the 5 stars I have nothing more to add.

In 1975-based British / Irish drama "Dead Shot" (aka "Borderland") when his pregnant wife is killed by British soldier Ami Ameen, IRA paramilitary Colin Morgan (under handlers Felicity Jones & Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) heads to London seeking revenge... by which time Ameen is in Mark Strong's unofficial unit hunting down the very bomb-planting / murdering terrorist cell Morgan's now in. Second-time co-directors Charles & Tom Guard nail the period details & tone superbly, and their debut as co-writers is also impressive (though does lose some of its early energy prior to its effective ending). It's a a good film and a fine entry to a dark, bleak, gritty, high-quality genre.