Kerry Condon plays a potty-mouthed IRA gang leader and Neeson is the quiet antihero in this action thriller set at the height of the Troubles
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/AlamyPhotograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamyroducer-director and veteran Clint Eastwood collaborator Robert Lorenz is now saddling up for this “Donegal western”.
Actually, Finbar’s trade is whacking people for local mobster McQue , but he feels a little bit bad about it all these days and we are invited to differentiate between his work topping bad guys who had it coming and the awful doings of the IRA.
There’s bits and pieces of entertaining stuff here, a few sharp lines and a gonzo final shootout, but the overall tone of cliche is a bit wearing, correctly signalled in the title, which appears to misremember the phrase “saints and scholars”. There is also something ungallant in the way the plot provides for Cusack’s character to vanish from the story after being punched in the face, and then forgotten about until almost the very end.
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