Broken Law

Route Irish

Great Britain has a healthy legacy of what they call Geezer Films - typically main characters are from the wrong side of the tracks. They usually get caught up in some nafarious activity, mostly cast as victims of circumstance rather than shapers of it.

This is from the other side of the river - Ireland. This is as classic a tale as you can get - a geezer flick with 2 brothers on opposite sides of the law, heck could be a Bollywood film.

The direction is tight and the characters flawed so it is watchable - just about.

Theres not much by way of location photography, majority of it indoors and all that.

Still worth your time and a look into how the other half lives beyond the pretty architecture and clean streets.

A very well made movie, not the usual run of the mill story, very relatable and brilliant acting on a 150,000 budget.

Character psych doesn't always appear to track smoothly, feels more like a story than a study and the summation is a touch too moot for me, but the good points counterbalance all this well. Especially for a crowd-funded indie. The point's clear enough, some really good musical choices, solid casting, etc.

Lots of thick Irish accents compounded by bad audio and actors mumbling makes this feature frustrating to watch. I just gave up.

Two brothers, one cop,one crook, just released from prison dives into crime, and by circumstantial incident runs into his brother in the aftermath of the crime...

well its an irish flick, that lets you taste asphalt and iti a small cast crimedrama of superfiscial caracter, its within the frames of the generic genre of crime, and its a story about poverty and broken homes in a country that never have seen real wealth anytime.and its a typical example that blood is thicker than you think and family comes first its a basic production where everything is plain and no more than that. plotstory has some surprises, and a real twist at the bitter end.so how to bribe a copper? well have a look yourself

the score of the film are pure irish, therefore pretty recommendable and well chosen songs, i still have trouble dehiffering some of the thick irish dialect, but its a small recommend from the grumpy old man