Shadow Dancer

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thiago s @Thiagostone Feb 14 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 2 A failure in 1 hour and 42 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Glafira Regina O @Glafira_Regina 02/16/2025 A rather dull film, despite touching on an important and painful topic—the British-Irish relations at the end of the 20th century. The thing is, the director didn’t bother much with dialogues, and in an hour and a half, I counted around 30 spoken interactions. The rest felt like a silent movie. Without a soundtrack. On top of that, the story itself is poorly structured, unfolding in a completely illogical manner with no explanations whatsoever. See more Jelisije J @jjosifovic 02/18/2023 A very engaging story of a women becoming a snitch for the British government to sell out her IRA brethren. See more KARL O @GalwayK 04/04/2022 One of the better movies dealing with the Northern Ireland situation. It deals with a stage not typically touched on - the early nineties. Complex plotting, fabulous performances and a slow burn. The grim subject matter is matched by a grim palette. Likely too pensive and slow for most. See more John O @ThreeRivers 03/20/2022 Spoilers: Factions within the government spies and factions in the IRA, and everyone armed and looking for betrayers. And everyone wanting to turn some, get them to change sides even if for self-interest, to stay out of the clink. Andrea plays this so economically, few words, soft voice, but like her brothers Domhnall Gleeson and Aiden Gillen, Catholics in Belfast, their dedication to block the Brits and Belfast Orange from killing Catholics, shortchanging them on jobs, housing, etc., was complete, after their own brother was shot dead in the street at about age 5. Though the rub was that she could have blown up a train or train station with a bomb in her bag, but felt the opposite pull of why kill off everyday commuters so didn't set the timer. So Clive, the MI5, domestic spy operative, who is always good, squeezed Andrea after she was arrested, saying she is going in the clink and will lose her son unless she spies on her hard-core, violent brothers and their violent agendas and reports back. The interesting thing is that something leaks and gets a provo gunman killed, and so the IRA leadership is waterboarding its own to find the rat. Of course, both sides know a price has to be paid for the dead gunman to avoid worse violence. And Clive, it turns out, falls for Andrea, and works a deal that she doesn't know about that her mom is the family member who gets offed to calm the waters. Andrea fakes him into thinking they are running away together with her little son. Next thing we know, after Clive has fallen out with boss Gillian Anderson and his own spy structure for wanting to protect his snitch Andrea, he answers the ringing phone in his car and the car explodes. In the end, Andrea and brother Domhnall and her son are in a moving car on the way out of the whole mess in order to survive. Her message: As if I would fall for a Brit spy man squeezing me. It shows that all sides are ruthless enough to keep exacerbating the problems of oppression, inequality, injustice, violence and abusiveness, and that sometimes it is against their own. See more Read all reviews

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