| Michael Collins [DVD] [1996] | ![Michael Collins [DVD] [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G40XX8WCL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart, Richard Ingram
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,345
Format: Full Screen, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900142052
ASIN: B00004CX8H
Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1996
Release Date: September 25, 1998
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A heartfelt epic from Irish director Neal Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire), Michael Collins is the biography of the charismatic and controversial Irish rebel leader who led the fight for independence from Britain. Among the most beautiful and atmospherically photographed movies of the 1990s, Michael Collins is also a rich and intelligent study of the nature of politics and leadership: the IRA spokesman, full of fiery convictions, eventually gives way to the more mature negotiator who strives to reach a compromise solution and is politically undone in the process. Liam Neeson gives a grand and towering performance as Collins, but for all the character's legendary, heroic, or otherwise larger-than-life attributes, Jordan and Neeson also keep him human. This is sweeping historical filmmaking of the kind we haven't seen since the heyday of David Lean, but with Jordan's characteristic touches of complexity and ambivalence. --Jim Emerson
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 How it was (nearly) May 20, 2010
John Lilburne (London, United Kingdom)
Ok, there are a few historical innacuracies, introduced for dramatic purposes. (The armoured car at Croke Park was outside the ground when it started firing at the escaping crowds, the firing inside was with rifles and pistols, carried out by the Irish Constabulary not the auxilaries. However, Michael Hogan, the player, WAS shot and killed, along with 14 others.) Nevertheless, this captures the spirit of the Irish War of Liberation, the uncertainties, the brutalities of both sides, the moral ambiguities that always will accompany warfare, regular and irregular, however just the cause. It portrays Michael Collins as a hero, because, to the Irish he is. The film has an Irish director, and the movie has to be appreciated as being from the Irish perspective. Once English chauvinism, and the red-top demonisation of the IRA is put to one side, this is a deeply moving account of a nation liberating itself from a foreign oppressor, well-acted, (generally, but even Julia Roberts fails to spoil the movie) sharply directed, and the few dramatic liberties taken with strict historical fact still convey the events and times in a way that only those who hanker after vicious British imperialism will cavil at. The main comment about accuracy is that, for once in the history of biopics, the subject of the movie was younger and better looking than the actor portraying him!
 Over the top and simplistic April 15, 2010
F. Price (England)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This film is about Michael Collins the intellectual who founded the IRA
He invented the whole bombing terrorism thing and ended up being assasinated by his own side
The depiction of the political conflict is overly simple and the film is ruined by the casting of Liam Neeson he's too Hollywood and dramatic
michael collins April 10, 2010
Derek T. Vaughan (Germany)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Michael Collins is a film recording the actions of Michael Collins, a political and military leader in the 1920s and 1930s. The story takes you to Ireland during these troubled times and immediately sets the scene, showing you the end of the easter rising in Dublin post office. After a stint in prison the story shows how Michael Collins, realising the only way to defeat British occupation is through subterfuge, goes about waging a new uprising, despite what the other Irish political leaders think. Liam Neeson plays the main characters role admirably, slipping into the boots of Collins effortlessly. Alan Rickman plays the character, Eamon De'Valera, the Irish Republican leader at the time very well. I believe the story to be relatively accurate, and is a must see for anyone studying the troubles of Ireland.
 Fact and Fiction March 7, 2010
Local historian (Northern Ireland)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just a typical pro IRA movie with a great mixture of fact and fiction. The car bomb killing the policeman from Belfast did not happen in fact he was murdered by the IRA outside his hotel. The armoured car in Croke Park didn't happen either but if it's in the movies it must be true!!!
Great!! February 17, 2010
Mrs J M Southwell (Staffordshire, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely loved this film, really enjoyed it.
Just to make it obvious, because I didn't know, is you have to flip the dvd over half way through to carry on watching.
Great though, worth buying! :)
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