Route Irish

2010
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

4.9K

YOUR RATING

The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth

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The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

4.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations

Trivia
Actor Vortre Williams was really waterboarded for the film. Trying to fake it proved too clearly false so it was felt that it had to be performed for real. Despite hefty safety precautions, Williams was highly traumatized by the experience and suffered panic attacks for several weeks after.

Quotes
Harim: This song is from Mesopotamia, uh... which means the land between the two rivers: the Tigris and the Eufrates, where the homo sapiens learned to write, to count and mark the stars, which anthropologists called the cradle of civilizations. In my dreams it might be once again.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2010 (2010)

Soundtracks
Rocks
Written by Bobby Gillespie, Robert Young and Andrew Innes
performed by Primal Scream

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Review

Featured review

Took me a while to get into this.

A conspiracy film about private military contractors during the Iraq war. some compelling and controversial moments. Not always a comfortable watch. Very angsty and the dialogue too often shouted. Mark Womack was convincing, John Bishop was surprisingly good too but Andrea Lowe's performance wasn't doing it for me. All in all not a great film, not a bad one either. A decent film with a slow start and prone to the odd dull moment.