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March 6, 2015
At the Movies: Belfast thriller ‘71' takes us back in time
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
The grimly gripping thriller “'71” plunges a young, inexperienced British soldier into the mayhem of 1970s Belfast.
Private Gary Hook (the up-and-coming “Unbroken” star Jack O'Connell) and his fellow fresh soldiers have little sense of The Troubles, as the North Ireland conflict was called. Given their orders to ship out from England shortly after basic training, they're assured they're not leaving the country. But it's more like another world. Promptly sent onto the burning streets of Belfast in berets, not riot gear, they find themselves tossed into an urban war zone ready to boil.
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