Reviews

I have posted before on this film. I am from Northern Ireland and am well aware of the facts and feel qualified to give an opinion.

There are so many faults with this film that seem to be being ignored. This is based on the statements to the Saville inquiry as people have said..but guess what, the Saville inquiry is only half way through the evidence and hasn't heard from the soldiers involved.

This is biased, it was made by a well known left wing film maker Paul Greengrass, who used to work for World in Action. That is not to denegrate anyone for being left wing but it should flag up where they are coming from.

The film showed a token IRA presence, which was included no doubt to allow rioters to be seen chasing them away, I wish. There is equal evidence and claims of the IRA shooting first why was this not shown in the film? There were a number of IRA men on the streets that day, why show one or two.

Why because it is more fashionable to knock the army, and to assume their guilt even though the Saville enquiry has not finished. I wonder if the enquiry finds any different from this film or hears conflicting evidence will we see another film being made - hardly.

What next? a film about the three innocent 'tourists' in Gibraltar? or the poor AlQueda tourists on the streets of Khandahar?

What about a film showing how the IRA tied poor catholic workers to vehicles with explosives turning them into 'suicide bombers' all beit that the IRA hadn't the bottle to drive them themselves.

Here we go again...another piece of one sided political propaganda which fails to give a realistic rounded view of this incident when IRA terrorists shot at British troops under cover of a local riot.

There is little mention of this perspective, this would hardly suit the political agenda which this film waves loudly. There is no discussion of the events leading up to this incident ie that large numbers of police and innocent civilians had been bombed and killed by terrorists under similar circumstances.

The so called civil rights march also included people calling these terrorists, political prisoners, presumably they would believe that those Al Queda prisoners in Cuba are political prisoners also.

The film ignores the facts in the search for emotional fairytale land. A poor film which deserves to be called a party political broadcast. 1/10.

This film leaves us still waiting for an unbiased objective film about the 'troubles'. The makers behind this film were also behind other films taking the republican side..In the Name of The Father etc..

A travesty which excuses itself by claiming to be based on the truth, while making obvious assumptions of guilt on the British side , whilst not exploring the many claims of guilt and involvment from the republican side.

The villans and good guys are left as black and white as in a chidrens pantomime. Can a film so obviously operating an alternative agenda and so lacking in balanced perspective ever be considered a good film...no

Releasing this now, at the time of an official tribunal is at best niaive at worst it may be considered reckless.

There is no Bloody Sunday, for the innocent victims of terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, on both sides, every day is Bloody.

a good film which is marred for many Brits, with the inclusion of that quip against Montgomery, repeated by some reviwers.

Montgomery and the British divisions face the toughest forces on D-Day, they were up agianst the only SS Panzer divisions on the day. Montgomery wanted to go careful to lessen casualties, nothing wrong with that - after all the British and their Commonwealth allies had been fighting since 1939.

The Americans created their own difficulties at Omaha, by landing away from the original beach.

simply my favourite film. A true story well told.

I wanted to clarify some points from recent reviwers which I hope help exlain some questions. Mainly from Geofbob.

The two Lts. Chard and Bromhead - were new to battle. The reason Chard performed so well may be largely due to the fact that he was an engineer who knew about building defences. The mealie bag wall they build in the film was vital in order to slow up the thousands of zulus.

The victory was not a sure thing because they had guns. The zulus had hundreds of guns capture that morning from the other 1700 British troops that had been killed by the zulus armed with spears.

As to where the Hawkins character went to ? In reality he legged it away from his mission before the battle - later submitting a bill for damages to the British government.

No explanation into the reasons for the battle. No bad thing as the true story of men against men is a worthy tail on its own and any explanation would be open to interpretation - read the history yourself!

One last point everyone enjoys the Men of Harlech scene. Whilst this is poetic license - a very similar incident happened in the Afghan war at the same time. A Btirish regiment cut off and fighting to the end, sang God Save The Queen just before the final Afghan attack - they survived - remember these were very different men from today, no political correctness here and possibly a lot more courage. 10/10

Oh, and by the way Colour Sgt Bourne - very much existed in real life. He was awared the DCM and lived until 1945, the last survivor of Rorkes Drift.

another piece of selective filmmaking. Anyone ask why all films about Northern Ireland are from a Republican perspective ? if not you owe it to yourself to find out the truth.

This is based on the truth...in that there is a place called Northern Ireland..and then it gets a bit hazy. This is irresponsible, nonsense.

I have only just finished watching this compelling two parter. I have previously been a fan of the Scott of the Antarctic story and the John Mills film of the same; I was apprehensive of the outcome of this made for TV version.

However, the result was superb. The acting , cast and script matched the quatilty of the original tale. An epic true human story of Endurance, deserved to be well presented and it was. You can only be left in awe of the men who took part in the original incident. Treat yourself to this if you have not already seen it, but wear some warm clothing, you feel the chill of the realism - I loved it. 10/10