An honourable and courageous film about an atrocity

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2002)

The English director Paul Greengrass has made an very fine film about an atrocity which many British people would still like to wish away.

The abuse levelled at the film is distinguished by ignorance of what happened and a partisanship that the director has plainly tried to avoid. If Greengrass is on the side of anyone it is the moderates on both sides whose hopes of establishing a non-violent way forward were brutally undermined in one bloody afternoon.