A variant Drug-ee Midnight Cowboy in Rain Drenched Dublin, two dun-fer
deadheads work out how to spend the remaining hours in their own
personal hell. There’s some very consummate acting from the two lead
roles,and lots of lovely character acting, an unashamed range of strong
urban Dublin accents, some nicely comedic situations and relations,
some nice bits of cinematography and some touching moments, worthy of
viewing for those accepting of its strong themes of addiction poverty
and no hope grime, though there some similarities between this and
midnight cowboy, its updated for the modern age and stands elements on
its head without too strongly pulling on the emotional levers that are
obviously available, and the truth is this story is perpetual and
endless, we tend to iconify and re-project that small proportion who
win, but the opposite portion are the truer story, the ending was
inversed and more modernist and harder to swallow but true enough to
itself and very valid. A tale for those who understand the dark end of the street is
in nearly every town everywhere.