Barely Juggling Multiple Lives
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
“Fifty Dead Men Walking,” a streamlined, adrenalized thriller that is not as deep as it would like to appear, treads a retrospective political tightrope. Loosely adapted by the Canadian director Kari Skogland from Martin McGartland’s 1997 memoir (written with Nicholas Davies) of his years as a spy infiltrating the Irish Republican Army, it doesn’t take sides. But how can a film that deals with such explosive passions (bygone or not) be entirely evenhanded? Once Martin (Jim Sturgess), its Irish Catholic hooligan turned informer, undertakes his perilous work, you pray he will avoid exposure. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3978 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 agosto 2009
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