Fifty Dead Men Walking

Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)

  • 88% of critics liked it
    (48 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (4,138 ratings)

Loosely based on the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA, writer/director Kari Skogland's thriller takes its title from author Martin McGartland's best-selling book of the same name. Set at the absolute height of the Irish civil… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Kari Skogland, Nicholas Davies
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Sep 10, 2008 Wide
Phase 4 Films

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    Jim Sturgess makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler.

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    Skogland is a crisp and efficient storyteller. She keeps the players vivid and relatively honest, and never shies away from the brutalities.

  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

    Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    A streamlined, adrenalized thriller that is not as deep as it would like to appear, treads a retrospective political tightrope.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    Fifty Dead Men Walking provides another example of what happens when mediocre moviemaking meets an interesting life.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Al S


    It's The Departed meets Spy Game. A first-rate, stylish and adrenaline-charged edge of your seat thriller. It packs pure powerhouse thrills and suspense from beginning to end. A masterpiece. A heart-pounding, shocking, spellbinding and absolutely breathtaking movie that you just… More

  • Dean !


    A decent thriller based on a true story of a member of the IRA who passed information on the the British special service. I don't think it helped that I didn't know what the film was about and it took about 20mins into the film to get a good idea of what was going on.… More

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    Cast: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Rose McGowan, Kevin Zegers, Nathalie Press, Nick Dunning, William Houston, Gavin O'Connor, Nathan Hughes, Kris Edlund Director: Kari Skogland Summary: Belfast hood Martin (Jim Sturgess) is recruited by a British agent (Ben Kingsley) to… More

  • Cynthia S


    Boy, that IRA business is nasty. They did a really good job on this film. Fine acting. Fine production. I really enjoyed this, even though I couldnt understand half of what they were saying...lol.

  • Bannan i


    Amazing story, great cast and a well thought-out way to show how it all went down. A bit slow to get into at first and then WHAM....shit happens and you don't know what's going on. Hey all you Eire lot, how was Zegers irish accent? xD

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