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Michael Collins
Everything seems to be very exciting when we talk about a man who has caused great controversy. That story begins with Michael Collins, one of Ireland's most controversial figures. The story of this man begins when he was leading a guerrilla war against the UK and helping negotiate the irrational creation of a free Ireland around the world.
27 July 1977, Dublin, Ireland
1956, Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ireland
19 August 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
21 February 1946, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
20 February 1928, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
30 December 1960, Dublin, Ireland
10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
30 May 1959
1949, England, UK
1950, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
March 28, 2010
While the film is unflinching in its depiction of the brutality of both the English and the Irish, Jordan pointedly dissociates his hero from any actual ugliness.
January 23, 2006
A bold and rousing historical epic.
June 01, 2007
Be sure to watch "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" if you watch "Michael Collins"
March 03, 2016
[Neeson] is superb as the principled, steely yet romantic action hero of Neil Jordan's film, which has been re-released for the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916.
July 18, 2008
Neil Jordan uses very broad and movie-ish strokes to paint his portrait of the busy, eponymous hero.
May 20, 2003
Played with great magnetism and triumphant bluster by Liam Neeson, the film's Michael Collins easily lives up to his nickname.
March 28, 2010
Bad history perhaps, but Neeson's performance borders on the brilliant.
March 28, 2010
There are pain and honor in [Neeson's] performance, and they constantly rise up to redeem a film that is less probing, less thoughtful than its director's claims and aspirations for it.
June 18, 2002
Handsome, but curiously cold, considering the emotional heat of Anglo-Irish matters. Fortunately, Liam Neeson commands almost every frame.
February 14, 2001
Jordan always had 6-foot-4 Liam Neeson in mind to play the man they called "the Big Fellow," and it's more than size that makes Neeson fit the part of a leader known for his "cloudburst temperament."
June 24, 2006
This is Jordan's most ambitious and satisfying movie -- a thriller with a real sense of scale, pace, menace and moral import.
January 23, 2009
Intelligent, enormously accomplished and seriously problematic, Neil Jordan's ambitious account of the activities of arguably the central figure in Ireland's painful, bloody fight for independence from the British Empire has a great deal to offer...
