MICHAEL COLLINS (1996) - ♦♦♦

Directed by - Neil Jordan

Written by - Neil Jordan

Starring - Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts

"This Neil Jordan take on the famous Irish Nationalist revolutionary and IRA founder Michael Collins is highly romanticised, and critics were not all too willing to accept the many creative freedoms which the filmmaker allowed himself. Nevertheless, the impartiality is not all that is wrong with this biopic, which is imperfect in its screenplay, all too open for conventional structuralism, and despite a strong performance by Liam Neeson as Collins, backed by a star studded cast, all too often there is a feeling of having been cheated a faithful or even historically interesting portrayal."

Biopic, UK/Ireland/USA