Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Guy Hibbert
Cast: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Five Minutes of Heaven takes on the two sides of a murder taking place in Northern Ireland 1975, and the aftermaths of that murder. This is focused on the psychological effects of such a meaningless murder during the difficult climate, and brought to life by the four actors giving life to both men both the boys back in 1975 and the men now a lifetime later. Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt acts very well throughout, and they had to. The movie relays on it.

The script is fresh. It's not judging or filled to the brink with moral. It keeps the focus, it doesn't prolong the scenes more than needed for effect and it knows which story it tries to tell and does so. It's interesting the way more movies used to be interesting back in the days. This movie also manages to stick it a couple of times to so-called documentary/real life-TV-shows, and scores a couple of points with me for the effort. I'm very close to reward it with an eight, but in the end it just didn't make the cut for that rating.