Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

In 1972 the British Army was still bemused as to how it had become to be regarded as an invading force when only 3 years earlier it had been welcomed by the Catholic community as a means of protecting them against Protestant aggression. The Marxist IRA had done its work well and the Brits were hated,despised and murdered if it could be done with no risk to the killers. The Army was embittered and resentful,confused as to its role . Bloody Sunday was a disaster waiting to happen in a testosterone - fuelled cauldron of mutual distrust and hatred. In Mr Greengrass's film the blame for this tragedy is laid firmly at the door of the British Government. The only innocents are those that died. Mr J.Nesbitt is superb as the Stormont MP leading the march to protest against Internment. As in real life,the moment the first stone is thrown all bets are off. The two sides confront one another,and not surprisingly,the one with the biggest guns wins. Over 40 years have passed and vested interests amongst Republicans and senior British officials have ensured that the truth will never be known. The film is chaotic,jagged,noisy and bloody.There is no time for reflection,again as in real life. As details of the casualties filter through,the senior RUC man - hardly a provo sympathiser - says to a clearly shocked army officer,"Is this what you call a measured response?". The truest and most significant line in the whole film.

The thought was there but the audio guys defiantly went on vacation while the filming was done. The audio is such a garbled mess it makes the film almost unwatchable. A great piece of history was mutilated by the filmmaker.I am sure after the screening there were humans that were asking " what the hell is that noise" and should have been corrected by someone with the gift of hearing .This is a tragedy that will remembered by the Irish forever and a black mark against the British forever.Being a Canadian with an Irish bloodline I was looking forward to seeing this film. It is still worth the time to see.

The partition of Ireland, though contested, is defensible; the subsequent neglect by the British government of the rights of northern Catholics is not. Nor is the shooting, on what has been termed "Bloody Sunday", of unarmed protesters objecting to the absence of these rights. Moreover, these events disastrously but understandably strengthened the roots that the I.R.A. was able to put down in the Catholic community. An initial enquiry vindicated the soldiers; but many felt this a whitewash, and Paul Greengrass's film shows an alternative version of events, based on extensive research. What we see, messily and unmelodramatically, is not a clean fight between good and evil - the demonstration was certainly hostile and not entirely peaceable - but a grotesque tragedy resulting from a self-fulfilling belief on the part of the army that they were already at war. The verdict might be incompetence rather than murder; but when the incompetence is itself premeditated, the difference is a fine one. To make a film effectively endorsing one of Irisah Republicanism's more potent claims was a brave move by I.T.V.; but a more recent enquiry has largely confirmed its accuracy.

for my as level case study we watched bloody Sunday. we watched this film after watching "in the name of the farther" which everyone in my class enjoyed.however i don't think there was a single person in my class who enjoyed bloody Sunday. im not dismissing the fact that it was an important event, and im not slating it for any reason to do with that. i simply thought much of the acting was poor ( i.e. British troops) and that some of the editing was a bit tiresome e.g. fades.all in all the film was very successful , however in my opinion i felt ti was overrated.