Aggravating

Rating: 2/10 (10 February 2007)

I rented "Bloody Sunday" after seeing the Paul Greengrass-directed "Bourne Supremacy." I liked that Bourne flick, still do. I do NOT like "Bloody Sunday," in any way whatever. The thing is just downright aggravating to me. I'll never watch it again.
If Greengrass, or whoever worked with him, wanted to convince me to feel sympathy for the Irish Catholics, I already did, up to a point. But this movie moved that point not one little bit.
Audio and video were both frenetic; unnecessary jangling phones jangled my nerves, and unnecessary jumping cinematic frames jangled them even more. It is a dramatization, for heaven's sake, that much jumpiness is just way over the top, totally uncalled for. The director had total control of what was shot from start to finish, unlike the "documentary" the film wants to pretend it is.
It could have been good. It wasn't. It was just plain aggravating. Two out of Ten.