Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Treat Williams
Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt star in this thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the corssfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire (Pitt) is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. But ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 24, 1998
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September 25, 2009This film is as good as Brad Pitt?s Irish accent (although he mastered it in Snatch).
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September 17, 2008Wow. With these two stars headlining something like this, you just think it has to be pretty decent. Sorry to disappoint you, folks. Ford puts in a good performance, but Pitt is only decent here. Must be why he openly bashed the film before and after its release and even tried to...( read more)
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June 14, 2008Brad and Harrison are two of my fave actors but this storyline is poor and accents are terrible.
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May 1, 2008Wow.. I expected this movie to have a higher average rating, in fact only a few of my friends have rated this. I say ignore the average rating and watch this, it really is an amazing movie.
I wouldn't exactly classify this as an action film, more a drama or thriller. I liked t...( read more) -
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October 4, 2009Ford and Pitt have enough charisma and talent to carry most of the scenes, but by the end, all the scenes don't make a very satisfying, or even logical, plot.
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September 15, 2009Expected a smart and intense thriller, but I got nothing special at all. Enjoyable at the very least.
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August 26, 2009Good action movie with an easy on the eye Brad Pitt playing the bad guy. Of course we all know which American hero wins out in the end.
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August 6, 2009The movie's title nearly put me off, but I decided to give it a try anyway considering the star power here. The first part is too violent for my tastes, but thankfully that settles down nicely as the movie goes along. By the end, I was really taken in. Great characters. It wa...( read more)
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January 23, 2008''Don't look for a happy ending. It's not an American story. It's an Irish one.''
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