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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-29 (Tuesday)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 04:35:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>On 4/30/25 9:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the
>>> IRA and the Troubles.
>>>     Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is
>>> accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
>>> course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
>>> who did it, in revenge! but has to re-up with an evil IRA handler and
>>> travel to London(?) in order to do so.
>>>     The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars
>>> Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.
>> 
>> Which was it? Was her death an accidental killing or an execution? Seems
>> like it's too important a plot point to gloss over.
>
>It appeared to be accidental - she was lying down in the backseat of a 
>car, and I guess moved or something so the dude shot her. But he also 
>didn't really check to see what he was shooting at. In fact, it was a 
>plot point that Mark Strong said Ameen's character was going to be 
>"charged with murder" for it unless he joined Strong's super-secret 
>counter-IRA squad in order to make the charges go away.
>
>Trust me, this probably sounds way more interesting than it was in the 
>movie...

Thanks for the review but it sounds like a waste of a good cast.