Review: I Went Down
Review by: Joy Wyse
This is a film produced in Ireland which was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival. For the life of me, I don't know why they liked it.
Most foreign films come supplied with sub-titles, but when the actors are speaking English, there's no such help, even when they have heavy Irish brogues. I heard the same complaint about "The Full Monty", and "Brassed Off", but the plots of those films overcame the problem. In "I Went Down", you miss a lot of the humor because you can't understand them.
The movie involves a small time gang boss and his stooges. Our Lead has just gotten out of prison [a term he served to protect his father, I think?] and he becomes a pawn in a caper to recover a man who has $25,000 pounds of the boss's money, or does he? By the end of the film, you finally figure out what's going on, but by that time, you really don't care.
The sex scenes seem to be in the movie simply because they wanted to have sex scenes in the movie. They could have been eliminated without changing the plot. It's a sad commentary when you don't remember much about a movie except for ridiculous things, such as one guy's sideburns and shoes, and another guy's birthmark on his face.
If this movie comes on free TV some evening and you have nothing better to do, you might want to watch it, but don't lose sleep over it. I give it a D+.
See you at the movies.
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