Very biased view of the Irish Troubles

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2010)

Well made film of course, good acting and powerful scenes.
However, it is so biased towards the IRA that it is little more than propaganda. The core problem of Catholic Irish against Protestant Irish is virtually ignored. The British would have been happy to get out of Ireland completely years ago were it not for this intractable divide amongst the Irish themselves.
The portrayal of the heroic IRA and the wicked British is so cartoonish, I'm surprised the IRA are not in white hats and the British in black.
The modern tendency to always think that rebels of any sort are in the right is indicative of the shallowness of contemporary political thought. Can we look forward to films portraying the heroic al-Qaeda?