![]() ![]() ![]() A first-rate chase thriller it may be, but it’s also a long night’s journey into day rich in passing social detail O’Connell, the most formidable leading man to emerge from our shores since Tom Hardy, carries it with terse intensity. An updated twist on Carol Reed’s 1947 noir Odd Man Out, this technically vertiginous white-knuckler plays down politics in favour of first-person experience: the young British soldier ( Jack O’Connell) accidentally stranded by his unit in a Belfast IRA stronghold is too concerned with surviving until dawn to pontificate on the purpose of the conflict. One of the great British films of 2014 went comparatively unrewarded: in the crowded ranks of Irish Troubles dramas, Yann Demange’s breathless debut ’71(Studiocanal, 15) may be the most visceral evocation yet of the era’s street warfare. ![]()
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