Movies starring Colm Meaney

The Commitments (1991)

118 mins     Comedy, Drama, Musical      

Released in 1991 "The Commitments" is best described as an amusing tale of a mismatched bunch of young people who form a band in the hope of bringing Soul to Dublin and making it big. Based upon Roddy Doyle's novel and direct...

Under Siege (1992)

103 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

Under Siege (1992) Steven Seagal stars as Casey Ryback, a cook aboard the USS Missouri who is really a highly trained Navy Seal, bad news for some terrorists who take control of the ship...

Far and Away (1992)

140 mins     Adventure , Drama, Romance      

I am sure that writer Bob Dolman and director Ron Howard set out to make "Far and Away" as an epic romantic drama set at the tail end of the 19th century. But what they ended up with could be unintentionally one of the funnie...

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)

99 mins     Comedy, Romance      

"The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" is a silly title for a movie, but then it is a silly but highly enjoyable movie and it is enjoyable because it is one of those fun British movies set in a quirky vi...

Con Air (1997)

115 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

With one of the most memorable mullets in the history of cinema Nicolas Cage is Cameron Poe in "Con Air". Following his releases from prison Cameron Poe finds himself sharing a flight to freedom with a bunch of deadly crimina...

Mystery Alaska (1999)

119 mins     Comedy, Drama, Sport      

A good way to describe "Mystery Alaska" is to say it is a mixture of "Slapshot" and "Northern Exposure", where the ice hockey and the sentiments of the town's folk carries a message about hope and belief. This is one of the m...

King of Texas (2002)

95 mins     Drama, TV Movie, Western      

For those who are unaware "King of Texas" is a western update of Shakespeare's "King Lear" but in truth you do not need to be a Shakespeare fan to appreciate it. In fact I would say not being a Shakespeare fan is probably a g...

The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003)

90 mins     Comedy, Romance      

To be honest "The Boys & Girl from County Clare" is not a very good movie but ironically if you like a bit of Irish charm and Irish music it will make you feel good. And in many ways that is the purpose of it, to make you fee...

Intermission (2003)

105 mins     Comedy, Crime      

"Intermission" was released in the same year as "Love Actually" and it shares some similarities to the romantic comedy favourite because not only do we have a multi-character, multi-story set up which interweave we also have ...

Layer Cake (2004)

105 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

Having had a hand in producing Guy Ritchie's cockney gangster movies "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch" Matthew Vaughn gave us his directional debut with "Layer Cake", a movie which shares similarities with Ri...

Five Fingers (2006)

87 mins     Drama, Thriller      

"Five Fingers" despite having a storyline which sees Ryan Phillippe's character being tortured and losing his fingers is not for those seeing action and excitement. This is a movie of words, of dialogue and character interpla...

Caved In (2006)

93 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi, TV Movie      

Let me tell you what the most entertaining thing is about "Caved In", it is that it stars Christopher Atkins who 26 years earlier made his screen debut in "The Blue Lagoon" and whilst having worked continuously this is only t...

Unnatural Causes (2008)

93 mins     Drama, Thriller      

I rate Colm Meaney as a good actor having watched him in numerous movies over the years but if I stumbled across him purely having watched "Unnatural Causes" or "Clean Break" as it is also known I would not give him another t...

The Damned United (2009)

98 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport      

Being a fan of the beautiful game I was aware of Brian Clough and his infamous reputation long before "The Damned United" was released. Although my earliest memory of Brian Clough was when as the manager of Nottingham Forrest...

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

108 mins     Action , Crime, Drama, Thriller      

"Law Abiding Citizen" strongly reminds me of "Fracture" starring Anthony Hopkins, it shares the theme of a man who commits a murder and then intentionally gets himself arrested so that he can toy with the lawyers who are tryi...

The Race (2009)

84 mins     Comedy, Drama, Sport      

"The Race" is what I call a grown up children's movie which thanks to its low budget is unaffected by the glitz which often ruin Hollywood movies. What that means is on one hand we have this fun tale of a young Irish girl who...

Get Him to the Greek (2010)

109 mins     Comedy      

Watching "Get Him to the Greek" reminds me of when I watch an Adam Sandler movie I raved about on release, it's not that good. I suppose what I mean is that it is an age thing because the days when I thought Adam Sandler movi...

The Conspirator (2010)

122 mins     Crime, Drama      

Movies like "The Conspirator" are an interesting experience for me as I know little about my own countries history let alone that of America although I am of course aware of John Wilkes Booth being the man who assassinated Pr...

The Hot Potato (2011)

96 mins     Comedy, Crime      

"The Hot Potato" strangely reminds me of "Carry on Columbus" despite being very different movies. "Carry on Columbus" failed to capture what the "Carry on" movies were about two decades earlier and in the same way "The Hot Po...

Bel Ami (2012)

102 mins     Drama, Romance      

So "Bel Ami" is basically the story of a pretty boy charmer who uses his looks to climb the social ladder, manipulating women along the way. As such I couldn't help but think that if this had been made 20 years earlier it wou...