Review of Omagh

Omagh (2004 TV Movie)
8/10
Powerful
21 February 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This is a most convincing film; particularly the performance by Gerard McSorley as the father of the son who is murdered by the IRA. But really all the actors and settings give an authentic feel. This film could easily gone have over the top with histrionics, but it always does provide a strong emotional persuasiveness through-out.

The film resonates without being overly political and the main purpose is to show how terrorist violence devastates not just one family – but several families. We follow as they try to obtain justice and bring to trial the murderers. They weave through Northern Ireland politics to attempt a closure on this dreadful act of terror. Unfortunately they never found it.
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