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starring: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart, Richard Ingramdirected by: Neil Jordan
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304385661
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304385668
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 23, 1997
Running Time: 133 minutes
Sales Rank: 3179
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
A heartfelt epic from Irish director Neal Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire), Michael Collins is the biography of the charismatic and controversial Irish rebel leader who led the fight for independence from Britain. Among the most beautiful and atmospherically photographed movies of the '90s, Michael Collins is also a rich and intelligent study of the nature of politics and leadership: the IRA spokesman, full of fiery convictions, eventually gives way to the more mature negotiator who strives to reach a compromise solution and is politically undone in the process. Liam Neeson gives a grand and towering performance as Collins, but for all the character's legendary, heroic, or otherwise larger-than-life attributes, Jordan and Neeson also keep him human. This is sweeping historical filmmaking of the kind we haven't seen since the heyday of David Lean, but with Jordan's characteristic touches of complexity and ambivalence. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A great film - should be watched by everyone
This film has a real power to it, and presents a major historical figure in a way that is easy to appreciate. The acting and directing is superb and the film is very engrossing, and in some places extremely sad. I'd strongly recommend this.
Rating:  - Historically inaccurate, mediocre-to-bad acting
This movie, while somewhat interesting, was so historically inaccurate and lopsided it's laughable. Alan Rickman's performance as Eamonn de Valera deserves particular mention; there's simply no way such a weak-minded man could possibly have served as taoiseach or president of Ireland. There's inadvertent humor in Julia Roberts's attempt at an Irish accent (and where are the strong Irish women so prominent in history?). If you want to watch a movie about the Irish struggle for independence, watch ... Read More
Rating: - Love the film, despise the DVD release.
This review is not concerned with the film itself - but rather its presentation on DVD. First of all, the disc is packaged in the much maligned Warner Bros. cardboard snapcase - which is easily damaged and impossible to replace short of simply buying another copy of the title.
Secondly, it is a double-sided disc and the film is broken up into two parts. As it always is with films released on DVD in this manner (GETTYSBURG, SCHINDLER'S LIST) the break is quite sudden and disruptive to the ... Read More
Rating: - Liam Neeson Shines as Collins
This is a well produced and well written film that tells the story of Michael Collins and the Irish Rebellion and subsequent civil war with great historical accuracy and drama. Liam Neeson is unforgettable in a role he is absolutely perfectly cast in as Michael Collins. Most of the rest of the cast does very well with the exception of Julia Roberts who seems out of her league here but mercifully doesn't hinder the enjoyment of the film all that much.
The tensions that erupt between Collins and Eamon ... Read More
Rating: - Pleasantly pleased
This film came in perfect condition and in a very timely manner. I got it the very next day. I couldn't have been happier. I needed this movie for a class project.
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