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Michael Collins, 1996

Starring: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn

Directed by: Neil Jordan

Written by: Neil Jordan

Language: English

Country: UK, Ireland, USA

Runtime: 133 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.0

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The mood of Michael Collins is bleak, gloomy, and captivating. The plot centers around leadership, a rise and fall, and political unrest. It is a drama, period, and war movie. Stylistically, Michael Collins is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Ireland and England. Michael Collins happens in the 1910s and in the 1920s. The musical score is orchestral. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. Michael Collins is known for being a Venice Festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes violent content.

Summary of Michael Collins

Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this brilliantly photographed epic from director Neil Jordan tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British rule, Collins remains a controversial but much respected political figure, who is skillfully embodied in the film by Liam Neeson. Aidan Quinn plays his longtime friend Harry, and Julia Roberts, sporting a nice brogue and lovely period costumes, is Katie, the woman they both love.

Jordan staged most of the battles, riots, ceremonies, and speeches at their actual locations in Ireland with a cast of thousands and a great eye for period detail. The result is a film that is both historically evocative and stunningly beautiful thanks to the breathtaking cinematography of Chris Menges. The film is also surprisingly nonjudgmental in its depiction of Collins's appalling but inarguably successful methods of "bloody mayhem." Stephen Rea and Alan Rickman costar, with Elliot Goldenthal contributing a rich Oscar-nominated score.

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Language:	English
Country:	UK, Ireland, USA
Release date:	5 September 1996
Runtime:	133 min

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Liam Neeson

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Entertainment Weekly

For whatever reason, Michael Collins is a troublesome movie, a film about a religious war in which religion is almost entirely absent; a flick that gives us our kicks with thrillingly shot terroristic violence while paying lip service to pious... Full Review

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by: Ken Tucker

Los Angeles Times

This is an extremely cinematic, beautifully made David Lean-type epic, helped by fluid and involving camera work by two-time Oscar-winning ("The Killing Fields," "The Mission") cinematographer Chris Menges. Full Review

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by: Kenneth Turan

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