Torches of Erin (2005) User Reviews

Spear Jumping Madness

[funkybrewstir · 10/10 · 17 October 2006]

This film is the quintessential, short-length, ancient-Celtic-Warriors-struggling-with-feelings- of-brotherhood, but-still-having-to-kill-each-other picture. Way better than "The Harp of Cooney-BoozeBain." Kelby Akin's performance has been called "unnervingly adequate," by the Dublin Post Office Film Review. Dolph Paulsen has been hailed as "a pretty good Cuchullain, even though Dolph is actually a Norwegian poo-head." Timothy O'Neill patented his now famous "more fog, damnit" approach to directing with this film project. Viewers across the globe have marveled at the special effects with comments such as "that was the greatest scene of a man in tartan pants jumping off the tips of flying spears in film history."

Wrong wrong wrong

[jesjes1 · 1/10 · 10 January 2007]

I only managed to see a trailer of this film. It is so historically inaccurate, and offensive. It should be viewed by none. Why are American actors badly portraying Irish heroes? They (CuCulainn and Fiachra, brothers) fought on a ford, not in a ditch of some sort. They would have been speaking IRISH, not sounding like English Elizabethan wannabes. This is an insult to Irish Mythology and an unfair version of what could be a fantastic movie. I hope the film makers of this movie realize the errors of their ways, and the offense they have cause to any Irish person even remotely aware of their history. To those who watch this film, please be safe in the knowledge that Irish Mythology is of a much higher quality and standard.