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Well-meaning but simpleminded.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Veronica Guerin
Why would anyone want to kill Veronica Guerin?
2003 · 1h 38m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
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Veronica Guerin
Overview
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Director and cast
- Joel Schumacher Director
- Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin
- Gerard McSorley as John Gilligan
- Ciarán Hinds as John Traynor
- Brenda Fricker as Bernie Guerin
- Don Wycherley as Chris Mulligan
- Barry Barnes as Graham Turley
- Simon O'Driscoll as Cathal Turley
- Emmet Bergin as Aengus Fanning
- Charlotte Bradley as Ann Harris
- Mark Lambert as Willy Kealy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
As movie material, Veronica Guerin's life could have benefited from the gutsy probing the woman herself was renowned for.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
You don't need subtlety for a movie like this -- which is fortunate considering that Schumacher is the director -- but you need a kind of craft that Schumacher doesn't possess.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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