The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
... a good picture that's at its best when dramatizing the very violence it condemns.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
10 Mar 2006
fresh:
... unnervingly evokes both the panic and the confusion of a world suddenly ripped inside out.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
10 Mar 2006
fresh:
Serves as a companion piece to writer-producer Paul Greengrass' superb 2001 pic Bloody Sunday, but emerges as a startlingly powerful achievement in its own right.