Veronica Guerin
Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assassins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.
3 February 1983, Dublin, Ireland
22 November 1982, Waterford, Ireland
1950, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
9 September 1973, England, UK
19 January 1952, USA
1967, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
4 June 1956, Dublin, Ireland
30 December 1960, Dublin, Ireland
October 15, 2007
Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school.
January 26, 2006
Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.
October 17, 2003
The movie never adequately explains the inner conflicts that led its relentless-reporter heroine to die.
September 09, 2007
...a respectful quasi-documentary
December 29, 2010
This is no Erin Brockovich.
October 15, 2007
Well-meaning but simpleminded.
August 07, 2004
While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.
April 19, 2009
Cate Blanchett gives a tour de force performance as Veronica Guerin under Joel Schumacher's direction of a no-nonsense script by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue.
June 04, 2007
While this is a movie that deserves a mildly favourable recommendation, it's also nothing short of a catastrophic fumble and an incredible lost opportunity.
October 22, 2003
You don't need subtlety for a movie like this -- which is fortunate considering that Schumacher is the director -- but you need a kind of craft that Schumacher doesn't possess.
July 24, 2007
Blanchett nearly saves it, but it's too much a plastic-Jesus biopic.
October 22, 2003
As movie material, Veronica Guerin's life could have benefited from the gutsy probing the woman herself was renowned for.
