Patrick O'Meara

Cast is great but the story meanders and does get lost. It also tries to capture an old simple Ireland… but in 2020, which does not make sense. They could have kept the folksy writing but just set it in the 1950s and it would have been better. Again anyone that has been in Ireland in the last 20 years knows it’s not like this. There is an extraordinarily powerful scene with Christopher Walken as a old father making amends with his son and then again with Emily Blunt trying to woo her childhood friend. True masters at their craft. Unfortunately, however, there were also so many unnecessary or flashback scenes and wasted dialog that went no where or not fully developed. It made the movie seem choppy like there were two writers, two directors and two editors. I blame the script. Accents aside (that were messy and at times unintelligible), the performances were solid and the backdrop is beautiful with some great imagery. So close, yet just misses the mark. See it for the performances and pretend it’s set in ye old Ireland without trying to follow the story.