{"id":319242,"date":"2011-03-18T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/route-irish-a-right-on-thriller-thats-taken-the-wrong-route\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:33:00","slug":"route-irish-a-right-on-thriller-thats-taken-the-wrong-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/route-irish-a-right-on-thriller-thats-taken-the-wrong-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Route Irish: A right on thriller that&#8217;s taken the wrong route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"71.9788793103\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 8:33 AM on 18th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Verdict:<span> Ken Loach at his worst<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Route Irish: A right on thriller that's taken the wrong route\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-18T08:33+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1d030b2fg_showbiz_1.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"1 Star Rating\" title=\"1 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Route<br \/>\nIrish is a didactic thriller about the Iraq war, with wearisomely<br \/>\npredictable villains and a profoundly unsympathetic hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mark<br \/>\nWomack, playing an aggressive, foul-mouthed former SAS man, undertakes a<br \/>\nthoroughly unbelievable investigation into a fictitious war crime,<br \/>\ntorturing and murdering as he goes, while conducting an absurd,<br \/>\nsado-masochistic romance with his best friend\u2019s widow (Andrea Lowe).<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/927d20e5631_468x330.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"330\" alt=\"On the wrong track: Route Irish is a didactic thriller with predictable villains and an unsympathetic hero\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the wrong track: Route Irish is a didactic thriller with predictable villains and an unsympathetic hero<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Loach<br \/>\nand his screenwriter Paul Laverty clearly believe the War On Terror is<br \/>\njust another excuse for capitalists to exploit the proletariat, and<br \/>\nwicked white imperialists to oppress innocent Arabs. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To persuade anyone apart from themselves, however, they\u2019re going to have to do better than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I\u2019m<br \/>\na fan of Loach\u2019s finest achievements, such as Kes (1969), Raining<br \/>\nStones (1993) and My Name Is Joe (1998), but this unwelcome return to<br \/>\nheavy-handed agit-prop strays perilously close to self-parody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Explore more:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dt>Places: <\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.dailymail.co.uk\/locations\/countries\/iraq\">Iraq<\/a> <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/927d20e5631_468x330.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1367490\/Route-Irish-A-right-thriller-thats-taken-wrong-route.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Route Irish: A right on thriller that's taken the wrong route\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Route Irish: A right on thriller that&#8217;s taken the wrong route<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 8:33 AM on 18th March 2011 Verdict: Ken Loach at his worst Rating: Route Irish is a didactic thriller about the Iraq war, with wearisomely predictable villains and a profoundly unsympathetic hero. 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