of Belfast in 1971, a place he
and his fellow squaddies know
little about, having previously
been led to believe they were
destined for a cushy posting in
West Germany.
On what should be a routine
search of a Catholic Republican
neighborhood, things turn nasty
when an angry mob arrives on
the scene. The troops are forced
to withdraw, but Gary is left behind and finds himself on the run
from a group of would be IRA
assassins. As he traverses the
streets of Belfast, moving blindly
between Catholic and Protestant
areas, Gary finds himself also
targeted by a black-ops group
of soldiers led by Sean Harris, an
actor who has cornered the weasel-faced scumbag market.
In Demange’s hands, the story
plays out like a John Carpenter
homage. The nightscape of Belfast, with its burning cars and
angry shadowy mobs, recalls the
Manhattan of Escape From New
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