Director Lance Daly has made a bleak and gripping film.

Director and co-writer Lance Daly tells a blunt-force story in blunt-force fashion, draining the color from both landscape and denizens, and spelling out details in dialogue where he thinks it might be helpful.

That it all works as well as it does is as much a testament to the crackerjack cast as it is to Daly's brooding, violently controlled direction.

very much an Irish Braveheart,and is intense, timely and terrific