50 Dead Men Walking (Blu-ray) R

When you cross the line there's no going back.
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Blu-ray Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 5, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Phase 4 Films

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh83%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,651
The scenes between Sturgess and Kingsley are riveting, as Kingsley alternately cozens and commands, playing his reluctant informer like a fish on a line. -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
Aug 20, 2009
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The performance of Jim Sturgess as McGartland helps place his decision into the day-by-day process of acting on it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 19, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Fifty Dead Men Walking is a largely uninvolving crime thriller that fails to do justice to the intriguing story of an informant within the IRA. Full Review
Digital Spy
Jul 14, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping. Full Review
New York Daily News
Aug 21, 2009
In making a film about a real person's choices, Ms. Skogland should have been brave enough to say whether or not she agreed with them. By saying nothing, she says more than she seems to be aware. Full Review
Critic's Notebook
Aug 9, 2018
Rating: B -- Jim Sturgess makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 26, 2009
Rating: 2/4 -- Fifty Dead Men Walking provides another example of what happens when mediocre moviemaking meets an interesting life. Full Review
Boston Globe
Aug 20, 2009

Product Description:

Loosely based on the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA, writer/director Kari Skogland's thriller takes its title from author Martin McGartland's best-selling book of the same name. Set at the absolute height of the Irish civil conflict, FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING begins as 22-year-old Martin McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA and report back with intelligence. It's an extremely dangerous job that could result in death or worse should his true identity be revealed, yet McGartland realizes that the information he's gathering will save countless lives. At first, the prospect of being discovered provides something of a rush for McGartland, though that initial buzz quickly wears off when his true identity is revealed and he's forced to attempt an impossible escape. Two decades later, McGartland is still on the run. Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, and Rose McGowan star.

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