Neeson, likewise, is great as Alistair. Unlike Joe, who wears his emotions on his sleeve, Alistair tries to conceal them, but you can tell he has deep remorse for what he’s done.
This is a revenge movie without all of the fighting and killing. Nesbitt and Neeson rarely have any screen time together, but the tension is still unbearable. What’s going to happen when they meet? That’s the big question, and the conclusion is perfect.
The Informers
Star-studded casts are lures at Sundance. They draw the people into the theaters, but sometimes the a
udience ends up leaving empty-handed. In the case of The Informers, the audience definitely takes away very little from the film.
The film is a 98-minute journey into narcissistic nothingness. Set in the '80s in the middle of L.A., The Informers follows around a plethora of characters all of whom, surprise, have problems. Big ones. Kidnapping, sexually transmitted diseases, cheating partners, underage infatuations, and confusion over sexuality just to name a few.
There are so many characters and so many story lines, packed into such a short movie that none of them approach anything considered coherence or resolution. The characters are thinly connected to one another, but there’s nothing that truly brings them all together. There’s even a completely superfluous plot line that involves a young kid and his father in Hawaii.
This movie wants so bad to be a quirky character romp in the vein of Pulp Fiction, but it fails on so many levels. There is not one likable character in this film, they are all irredeemable messes who have no point in existing in the first place other than to be vapid wastes of space.
This film was one of the most frustrating messes I have seen in a long time. The best thing about the movie was hearing the groans from the press corps out in the hall after the screening.
The Winning Season
The Winning Season is a way to tell a conventional story in a fairly unconventional way. A local high school 
girls basketball team needs a coach. They are terrible team who never win. See what I mean about conventional? A team that needs a new coach because they are terrible? What do you think happens with the new coach? That’s right, they end up winning. But, that’s not the point of the film. The reason why this film is different from the other feel-good sports films that involve a new coach taking over a team is because here it's more about the personal lives of the players and the coach involved, rather than the winning, and the "big game."
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