Day 243: Waking Ned Devine

Directed By- Kirk Jones

Written By- Kirk Jones

Starring- Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan

Critics Review- "The beauty of this film is its simplicity. It's good old-fashioned story-telling, following the increasingly desperate attempts of a group of lovable rogues to fill their pockets."- Jason Korsner "BBC"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 83%  Audience- 85%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2   

My Review- 

This has to probably one of the best films I have watched in awhile, I really liked the story, the acting and of course the accents. It is a simple story about the lottery and what to do with the winnings if they guy who won has died. Throughout this movie we meet the villagers and began to like them except for one old lady in rascal she seems to hate everybody in the village. What also makes this movie really good is that since it is set in Ireland we get to here old folk music and traditional Irish music which was really cool in the movie. When of them sees a vision of Ned the winner of the Lottery the village soon decides to split the winnings among themselves because it is what Ned would have wanted, along the way when we meet the different villagers we get to know more about them and everyone knows everybody since it so small and how everyone cares about each other and looks out for one another. This movie did make me feel really good for some reasons I cannot put why, it was just a happy movie and I really believe that's what the writer was looking for when he wrote the movie, and basically look out for one another. This is one movie that should be watched for the story line since it is really good and the acting from the actors is done well, by everyone. Also this movie did not have big and famous Irish actors in it, they seem like they were actors that came in movies every know and then and this movie was finally the one movie to show how well they could really act. I suggest you find this movie to watch and see if you like it for yourself. I think the only flaw I found with the movie is that it was a little too short just being an hour and 35mins I had hoped it would have been 15-20 minutes longer.