Veronica Guerin
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Movie Reviews of Veronica Guerin
Movie Review: "Things can always get worse, Veronica"
Summary: 4 Stars
Just when the media excessively highlights the wrongdoings of unscrupulous journalists (i.e. Jayson Blair at The New York Times) it is redeeming to know that the entire profession isn't completely stripped of its integrity and morals. In the case of Veronica Guerin the public can have some of their faith restored that there are journalists out there who care to uncover the truth for the benefit of the public's well being. I remember hearing about the execution-style killing of Veronica Guerin on the evening news and my heart ached for this senseless killing. Now with the aid of this film individuals can learn the story behind the life and career of Veronica that ultimately led to her premature death. After witnessing the horrific effects of heroin use on teenagers and children in a rundown housing complex veteran reporter Veronica Guerin decides to refocus her attention on the prevalence of crime in Dublin. Outraged that nobody is covering the drug trade she jumps headfirst into this underground economy and doesn't hesitate to immediately make some powerful enemies. Cruising around in her bright red car through the Dublin streets Veronica fails to back down even after her life is repeatedly threatened and she is brutally attacked. Even the pleading of her family and her work colleagues fail to change her mind.
It is encouraging to know that the efforts of Veronica Guerin were not in vain. Her journalistic accounts of Dublin's drug trade and her subsequent unsympathetic murder has resulted in the passing of several laws such as stripping the assets of suspected drug dealers. However, after watching this film I can't help to wonder about the nameless other journalists who have been similarly slain while in the line of duty. Without these brave souls it is discomforting to think of the stories that would not be covered.
Recommended.
Movie Review: Solid True-Story Irish Crime Tale
Summary: 4 Stars
Cate Blanchett has done it again - played someone you can't take your eyes off of, and not because she's a classic beauty but she's just a good actress and plays such intense roles. Here, she's the single-minded outraged Irish reporter out to expose the drug trafficking in Ireland in the mid 1990s. Yes, it's based on a real person, a very real Veronica Guerin, who took her life in her hands with her desire to have this problem taken care off so the kids in her country wouldn't have such easy access to harmful drugs.
According to the film story, the drug problem was ignored or the police were just ineffective in dealing with it, so Guerin goes after the mob as an investigative reporter. Her husband pleads with her to stop, knowing she could easily be killed. The gangsters were tough and realistically portrayed on film. There is no talk-now-shoot-later nonsense. You mess with them, you will pay. That's the message they give Guerin and you'll have to see the film to find out what happened.
Yup, this is an attention-getter from the start and especially with Blanchett in the lead. A good story and highly recommended.
Movie Review: Insightfully inspiring
Summary: 4 Stars
Cate Blanchett embodied Guerin's energetic spirit, her affable charm in getting the answers she needed from the boys, her determined upfrontness with the drug lords themselves and ability to push aside her fear and press with her work when her life was threatened.
I wondered half-way through the movie when the woman would give up after such brutal threats on her life. For a journalist, she seemed to be championing a cause rather than just reporting the news.
It wasn't until her death, as noted in the film, when Ireland's attitude and laws towards illegal drugs began to change. I had no idea the impact Veronica Guerin had on revolutionizing the Irish community. A young reporter stopped at nothing to show her society that a situation was becoming out of control and no one was taking notice. She made it her job to make them notice and unwittingly became a heroine. It was then I truly began to appreicate her bravado.
Great movie based on a true story.
Movie Review: a modern martyr to the drug problem in Ireland
Summary: 4 Stars
Drugs and thugs plague modern Irish cities and endanger children.
A crime fighting reporter goes after finding the big man
hidden behind the scenes and when she finds him, he beats her
up threatens her and then tries to buy her off.
They make her life a hard place,
yet she keeps at it. Her driving record of parking and speeding tickets
in the end puts her in the known place at the known time.
In the US the media is controlled by a few, so that people like her
are not heard even if they want to be?
That the Irish press is free and the US press isn't becomes plain,
because we aren't allowed such martyrs that are found in Mexico and Ireland?
Movie Review: interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a movie about an Irish reporter who decides she wants to investigate the drug world after she sees young children in a local apartment building playing with dirty heroin needles. She sets out to get to the source of the problem, but as she gets closer and closer, her life and the lives of those around her become filled with danger. This film was based on a true story, so it was a great one to tell, however I did not feel sympathy for her. When the drug lords began to make death threats to her husband and children, instead of backing off, she pushed harder. I think that was selfish of her. Great movie, I just did not agree with it.