Tiger's tail

It's a new era now! Won't be long before Irish kids will be asking 'mammy what was a Celtic Tiger?'. They'll look back on John Boorman's Tiger's tail and realise that this movie warned everyone. If you let go of that tail then it's all over. Of course this is what happened. In Boorman's film: Temple Bar and hospital casualty wards resemble something from an RTE documentary where the event has been reconstructed using the worst extras they could find. There's nothing subtle about Tiger's tail. It's all about hammering the audience with the excessive orchestral score and platitudes that everyone knows already. Then there's Gleeson's unsympathetic character - we don't care about him. The only good scene was when his double arrived at the house and began crashing the gate. Then there are loads of familiar Irish actors - the ones you're sick of seeing in every mainstream movie made here. Do these people all have the same agent who happens to be married to a casting director? In relation to Boorman's other stuff this movie is down there with Exorcist 2! Imagine if Claude Chabrol had directed this film - could have been really good?