OK Irish uprising movie

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2008)

I'm not sure if the world needs yet another Irish rebellion movie, but here it is. Except for a highly inevitable and predictable ending, WIND is watchable for the growing schism between brothers as each takes a side in the Northern Ireland uprising of the 1920s. Definitely an anti-war film, it portrays the Brits as the inhuman empire builders they were at the time (an empire doomed to erode a decade later). But it also portrays IRA members as equally brutal in return. Many graphic killings, and a real downer of a movie, so best keep the little ones away. The only familiar actor is Cillian Murphy, the hollow-eyed villain from REDEYE. The director uses some locals for small parts, which works in the movie's favor.