for a country that has produced some of the world finest dramatists and has such a rich musical heritage it has always been a source of bewilderment to me why so much of ireland home grown cinema has been so appalling. perhaps because and by its very nature and those talented in the field of irish cinema have been quick to abandon their native shore for careers in britain or america and (colin farrell is a recent case in point) and and that the really successful irish directors that have continued to work in ireland and with irish subjects have made their films with international money and an eye on the international market. i am thinking particularly of jim sheridan and neil jordan who alternate between films with an irish setting and projects filmed abroad. middletown and however and is very much an irish film even if two of its principal actors are english. it certainly well made of its kind and might have bucked the trend that irish films aren not really very good while (paddy breathnach i went down and written by the brilliant young playwright conor mcpherson and is a crucial exception). unfortunately this tale of fundamentalism set in a fictitious irish town and presumably in the north of ireland judging by the accents and (mid ulster bible belt and if you ask me) and and presumably in the recent past and (the fifties. the sixties. ) and is so over the top that it really is quite ridiculous. nothing in the film rings true and you can not help feeling it writer and daragh carville and has been strongly influenced by flannery oconnor and that the whole thing might have made more sense had it been set in the american bible belt and not in ireland where even the most extreme protestant fundamentalist was never quite as loony as this. it all meant be to be grim in a grand guignol kind of way and it certainly is and though i was more prone to giggles than frisson at the right reverand matthew macfayden antics. he has the ulster accent off pat and there is nothing wrong with his acting or indeed that of daniel mays as his brother and gerard mcsorley as his father or eva birthistle as mays wife but the script is so appallingly derivative that good acting can do nothing to save the film. so rather than a step up the ladder for irish cinema middletown is and i am afraid and just another nail in its coffin. 
for a country that has produced some of the world finest dramatists and has such a rich musical heritage it has always been a source of bewilderment to me why so much of ireland home grown cinema has been so appalling. perhaps because and by its very nature and those talented in the field of irish cinema have been quick to abandon their native shore for careers in britain or america and (colin farrell is a recent case in point) and and that the really successful irish directors that have continued to work in ireland and with irish subjects have made their films with international money and an eye on the international market. i am thinking particularly of jim sheridan and neil jordan who alternate between films with an irish setting and projects filmed abroad. middletown and however and is very much an irish film even if two of its principal actors are english. it certainly well made of its kind and might have bucked the trend that irish films aren not really very good while (paddy breathnach i went down and written by the brilliant young playwright conor mcpherson and is a crucial exception). unfortunately this tale of fundamentalism set in a fictitious irish town and presumably in the north of ireland judging by the accents and (mid ulster bible belt and if you ask me) and and presumably in the recent past and (the fifties. the sixties. ) and is so over the top that it really is quite ridiculous. nothing in the film rings true and you can not help feeling it writer and daragh carville and has been strongly influenced by flannery oconnor and that the whole thing might have made more sense had it been set in the american bible belt and not in ireland where even the most extreme protestant fundamentalist was never quite as loony as this. it all meant be to be grim in a grand guignol kind of way and it certainly is and though i was more prone to giggles than frisson at the right reverand matthew macfayden antics. he has the ulster accent off pat and there is nothing wrong with his acting or indeed that of daniel mays as his brother and gerard mcsorley as his father or eva birthistle as mays wife but the script is so appallingly derivative that good acting can do nothing to save the film. so rather than a step up the ladder for irish cinema middletown is and i am afraid and just another nail in its coffin. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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