Watch: Five Minutes of Heaven 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – In February, 1975, in Northern Ireland, seventeen year-old UVF member Alistair Little kills the catholic Jimmy Griffin in his house in Lurgan in front of his younger brother Joe Griffin. Alistair is arrested and imprisoned for twelve years while Joe is blamed by his mother for not saving his brother. Thirty-three years later, a TV promotes the meeting of Alistair and Joe in a house in River Finn, expecting the truth and the reconciliation of the murderer and the victim who actually seeks five minutes of heaven..
Plot: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen’s brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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My five minutes of heaven, how can that not be good for me?
An estimated 3720 people were killed as a result of the conflict in Northern Ireland.This film is a fiction inspired by two men who bear the legacy of one of those killings…….
That is the opening salvo from the makers of Five Minutes of Heaven, I would personally like to add, since no other reviewer here has said it thus far, that the two protagonists never met in real life.
Five Minutes of Heaven was first screened at the Sundance festival in 2009 and won awards for Directing N/A and for screen writing N/A. It stars Liam Neeson as Alistair Little and James Nesbitt as Joe Griffen. The story is about how a young wannabe hero of the Ulster Volunteer Force N/A gunned down the brother of Joe Griffen N/A, purely because he was of Catholic religion, all witnessed by young soccer ball kicking Joe out on the pavement in front of the Griffen house. After the build up and execution of the crime, we forward to the future after Little has served 12 years prison for the murder, and here we now have a television company led meeting between the two after the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
It’s only now that the film really kicks in as a powerful piece that has something to say. Too many third rate productions caricature their characters in films involving the British/Irish troubles, but the makers here are keen to avoid that-hence the appearance of Neeson, who wouldn’t have come cheap one feels. Both Nesbitt N/A and Neeson then shift gears to ram home the point of the story. This is about forgiveness, pertinent questions about if that is possible under the most trying of circumstances. Would you be able to move on? And at what cost? Both sides of the coin are deftly rubbed by Hirschbiegel and his terrific cast.
It would be stupid of me to not say the piece has problems since it clearly isn’t perfect. Both sides of the families involved are not formed at all, and that is without a doubt a very big misstep. Probably a victim of course of the TV movie production value and the sadly inept running time afforded it. But that annoyance aside, and in the context of the final product…..well it works out rather well I feel. There’s some smart points of reference in there, note the young Little handling his gun amongst a sea of childhood toys, while there’s a dolly out shot involving a church that nails that particular scene with maximum poignancy. But really, as is normally the way in this type of production, it lives or dies by its ending, and the question is answered as to if the actors involved have involved us enough to actually carry it off?
We are OK here, because we got Nesbitt and Neeson, point made, acted accordingly, yep, see this if you can. 8/10
Average
After reading some reviews on this film i was really expecting a lot more than what I got. It felt more like a itv programme than a film.The film deals with guilt and forgiveness, and shows the harsh reality of how both of these feelings effect people. After a long, dragged out piece of the film the two finally meet and I suppose acceptance from both of them happens where they can both move on.
Before they met i just expected more tension, and it was all a bit of an anti climax.
I suppose it shows that the innocent person can become the more angry and aggressive one out of the two, while the one who committed the murder was full of gulit and remorse for his actions, the victim was very bitter and angry, but the film went to show that meeting actually did them both good and gave them both the release and acceptance to move on with their lifes.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer Guy Hibbert
Actors Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca
Country United Kingdom, Ireland
Awards Won 1 BAFTA Award9 wins & 12 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK, Todd-AO, London, UK (processing and transfer)
Film Length 2,438 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 16 mm (Fuji Super F-64D 8622, Eterna 250T 8653, Eterna 250D 8663)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)