Barber

It's a story of redemption with misconceptions ageing and intelligence dawning. Barber tells us how difficult it is to heal the wounds of lives and how victims of difficult trauma struggle alone while sharing the same spaces. A great family drama that promotes acceptance and understanding in a unique smart manner. No superficial action sequences just raw and risky private detective work. Movie takes a good look into the characters surrounding the tragedy. Excellent performance by Aidan carrying the whole story effortlessly above the level of average. A slow story to enjoy especially for the uniqueness.

The film is a family drama related to crimes of sexual violence. This is a drama in the detective genre, affecting social conflicts and the "MeToo" movement, in particular. The film is for fans of the genre, if you are not interested in theses of this kind, then this is not for you. The characters are interesting, the dialogues are meaningful; the detective story fades into the background of the plot and returns to the finale - a kind of plot elevator. The actors are wonderful, the main character is charming, and a kind father; the daughter is sweet and touching. But cinema is for a fan of the genre, yes, the picture is good, but not for me.

Maybe I'm biased being Irish and a fan of Aidan, but I really enjoyed this. I identified with the characters it had a good story. It was obviously low budget and some of the acting wasn't fluid, but it was very enjoyable and I would watch a sequel if it was made.

This may not be seen as favourably outside of ireland and is not your typical private eye movie. Some nice twists.

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Just disappointing from start to finish. It failed to capture, failed to take off. At no point does it ever feel captivating or progressing. The writing is poor and some of the scenes it creates are cringe at best. I'm all for Irish films, but the story in this lasts little in the memory. Though the film was just 90 minutes or so, I honestly felt like it was much longer due to how slowly it moved and how lacking the scenes were of interesting dialogue. Overall, i was hoping for the best, but some of the casting was questionable - but even so, the script content never really had much hope. I would recommend avoiding.

The film feels like a car collision. There is the noir feeling of it, the grizzled ex-cop private eye, the Irish accent, the dark pool of Dublin streets and police corruption. And then there is the gay cop/husband/father drama, the #metoo story of underage girls masturbated at, the young daughter disabled by a motorcycle accident, the rigorous mask wearing. The thing is, this could have worked, but instead it felt like two discordant notes clashing. And the worst part of it all is the ending, the ridiculous "twist", if one can call it that, of which I don't want to talk for fear of spoiling the chance that you would enjoy it, but which kind of invalidates any good will one might have had toward the victims or any measure of competence you would have assigned to the main character.

I like Aidan Gillen, not just as Littlefinger, because I've seen him in a lot of things, doing good work, so that elevated the film a little. But without his charisma, this is a weird film to be watching, it feels like a whiny generation production where people go to the police for seeing a schlong and bullies are fighting back by slapping people and talking badly about gay rights. It was like a noir policier movie for kindergarten kids. The tension was there, but it just felt totally weird and delusional, like written by a teen on a phone.

Bottom line: a social justice agenda driven film that somehow didn't feel offensive, just endearing, like watching a little dog trying to trick you he didn't bite your shoes. Had potential, it went nowhere.