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Watch: Shadow Dancer 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to protect her son and in return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5. Soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Collette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Collette..
Plot: Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 12,660
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	71/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 213 Popularity: 11.702 | TMDB

Reviews:

Gripping, intelligent psychological thriller
Throughout the years, the IRA and the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland have been a source of inspiration for countless British and Irish movies. What can ‘Shadow Dancer’ add to what we already know about this conflict? The answer is: nothing, really. This film isn’t about the struggle for freedom, it isn’t about catholics and protestants, it isn’t even about right or wrong. It’s only about suspense. This isn’t a political movie, it’s a thriller.

In fact, this movie could just as easily have been set in the context of the Italian mafia or a Mexican drugs gang. The story about a young female terrorist who, after a failed bombing attempt, becomes an informant for the authorities to escape a prison sentence, is extremely suspenseful. She lives in constant fear of being discovered, which would almost certainly lead to her execution. ‘I am dead’, she literally tells her contact at one point.

The film starts off with a clever flash-back, a very intense scene that explains her motivation to become a terrorist. The rest of the film is told in chronological order, with the suspense rising gradually, until the unexpected and dramatic climax.

In a subplot, we see that the British secret service is subject to the same sort of internal discussions, infighting and ego-tripping as the IRA. Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson (nice to see her again!) are fine as secret service persons, but the best acting is done by Andrea Riseborouh as the proud and independent terrorist Collette McVeigh.

The film is also excellent in recreating the atmosphere of the catholic working class neighbourhoods in Belfast (actually, it is shot in Dublin), where terrorism in the 1990’s was a part of everyday life. Director James Marsh uses faded colours in many scenes to recreate the rundown streets and interiors.

This is a gripping, intelligent psychological thriller with excellent acting and a plot that will have you hooked from start to finish. I was amazed the IMDb-rating is not higher than 6.6.

Sombre story about the latter days of the Troubles
This is director James Marsh’s first fiction movie. He has hitherto been known as a great documentary maker, including last year’s excellent Project Nim. In Shadow Dancer he has put together a film set during the Troubles period of Northern Ireland’s history. In it a girl with IRA connections is coerced into becoming an informant for MI5. This leads to several compromising and dangerous situations. While the movie is set within a clear political situation, it isn’t really a political film. The focus is specifically on the role of the informer in this powder keg context. At the time there were many people in similar situations and the movie tries to look at both the dangers that they found themselves in and the complex moral dilemmas that effected people on all sides of the conflict, both republicans and British intelligence. As such, Shadow Dancer is about people, as opposed to politics and it doesn’t really make any subjective comment on rights and wrongs. It’s clear that both sides of the fence act in sordid ways. The distrust amongst the high command on both sides is shown to be similar. Civil war is never a simple affair.

It’s a well-acted and intelligently written film. It’s low-key and pensive rather than a suspenseful thrill-ride. Perhaps it’s a little too slow paced and sober for its own good at times but it does gather steam in the final third and things are wrapped up quite effectively by the end with a series of events that fall into place with tragic inevitability.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 6300000
Revenue 1777709
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director James Marsh
Writer Tom Bradby
Actors Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
Country United Kingdom, Ireland
Awards 8 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Aaton Penelope, Zeiss Master Prime and Fujinon Alura Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK (rushes)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 400T 8583)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema