Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-29 (Tuesday)

On 4/30/25 9:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

Dead Shot (Pee+) - A dreary 2023 British film set in the 1970s about the
IRA and the Troubles.
    Colin Morgan stars as an (ex?) IRA member whose pregnant wife is
accidentally killed/executed by a British soldier (Aml Ameen) - so of
course the IRA dude swears to track down and kill the British soldier
who did it, in revenge! but has to re-up with an evil IRA handler and
travel to London(?) in order to do so.
    The only interesting thing about this flick is that it co-stars
Felicity Jones, but she's not in this enough to come close to saving it.

 Which was it? Was her death an accidental killing or an execution? Seems
like it's too important a plot point to gloss over.

It appeared to be accidental - she was lying down in the backseat of a car, and I guess moved or something so the dude shot her. But he also didn't really check to see what he was shooting at. In fact, it was a plot point that Mark Strong said Ameen's character was going to be "charged with murder" for it unless he joined Strong's super-secret counter-IRA squad in order to make the charges go away.
Trust me, this probably sounds way more interesting than it was in the movie...