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69
Viewer score based on 36 votes.

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57
Critics' score based on 16 reviews.
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The decibels, energy and overall quality are high in writer-director Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking, her supremely well-made, highly stylized, graphic tale of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" in the late 1980s.Full Review

Doris Toumarkine
The Hollywood Reporter

Setting entirely aside the accuracy of the film, the IRA still has him marked for death, and indeed there was an attempt on his life in Canada 10 years after he fled. He's still out there somewhere.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

What makes Fifty Dead Men work is the story's sheer moral complexity, which dares viewers to sympathize with anyone onscreen for more than a few minutes at a time.Full Review

Tasha Robinson
The Onion A.V. Club

Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A classic about the Irish "troubles." Despite the unavoidably convoluted facts of the real-life story, pic boasts plausibly written, solidly acted characters and a conflict that pushes the viewer's righteous-indignation buttons.Full Review

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