Route Irish
2010 · Movie · 109 min · ★ 5.9 · 71% critics
After returning from Iraq, a private security contractor refuses to accept the official account of a close friend’s death. Driven by guilt and unanswered questions, he digs into what happened, uncovering troubling clues and confronting memories of the war along the way.
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Details
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2011-03-16
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (104 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a serious, investigative drama about seeking the truth amid war’s fallout, similar in spirit to In the Valley of Elah; Not for you if you avoid bleak, intense stories.
Pros: tense investigation; timely Iraq backdrop; moral urgency | Cons: heavy subject matter; bleak tone; emotionally intense
Themes
- loss of loved one
- iraq
- baghdad
- special air service (sas)
- suspicious death
Cast & crew
Mark Womack
as Fergus
John Bishop
as Frankie
Andrea Lowe
as Rachel
Geoff Bell
as Walker
Jack Fortune
as Haynes
- TH
Talib Hamafraj
as Harim
Jamie Michie
as Jamie
Najwa Nimri
as Marisol
Stephen Lord
as Stephen
Gary Cargill
as Undertaker
Directed by Ken Loach