Awesome Movie

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Have you ever seen the synopsis for a movie and thought to yourself, "Oh yea, this is gonna be great!" only to be let down within the first 30 minutes? Well, this happened to me this week. I checked out a film called Citadel. No, it was not about a college in Charleston, SC for military kids, it is an Irish film written and directed by Ciaran Foy. Citadel is about a father who teams up with what I call an insane priest to save his daughter from a gang of violent, demented kids. Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, here are my thoughts: I will start by saying that I really wanted to like this movie...I did. The first few minutes you get a little action and then you're like "Okay, here we go." I spent the next 15 minutes of boredom only trying to convince myself that the main character was not played by John Mayer because if I didn't find something to keep me interested, I would have fallen asleep. Listen, this movie is not a total poop fest, it isn't. I think the problem is, it just was not MY cup of tea. I have spoken with people who liked it, and I did not immediately want to hurl things at their faces...I understood.

Great film. Extremely scary and chilling, not like most horror films nowadays, where the scares are predictable and you can pretty much guess what will happen. Watched it with a friend and first thing that actually scared us properly, and left us not being able to sleep for about 4 nights! Brilliant acting from Aneurin Barnard, i've only seen him in a few other things but he's a very good actor, good in many roles, and i hope to see him in other stuff. Although the cast was less well known, there was very good acting from all the others. Definitely give this a go, if you like a good horror/psychological thriller that will leave you extremely creeped out.

This was a really good movie , actually it was a great movie.This movie did not take long to get going and what a way to start a movie. With the pregnant lady , It was nasty not gory, it was nasty as it is a really nasty thing to do.I really like the rest of the movie, as we get to see the father is scared of going out side his house, which gives their movie more of a intense feel to it.You may be thinking this sounds like a another movie called Them. however this movie is far from it, as it is a bit of a plot later in the movie.I don't know if I miss it, I don't think they explained who or what they were.Fantastic acting , and great movie 9/10

This is an above average suspense thriller that's worth spending your time watching. I read the reviews before watching and noticed that all the "bad" reviews were sparse, extreme in their negativity, often childishly rude and spent more time trying to sound clever than actually explaining why it wasn't a good movie. On the other hand the good reviews generally seemed honest, straight-forward and well-considered with people giving balanced and thoughtful commentary on how they felt. That's what tipped it in favour of me giving the movie a try and I'm glad I did. The lead actor was brilliant as the cringing, aggro-phobic new father. The fact that some viewers have whined about him being "irritating" and needing to "man-up" is actually a great testimony to the guys acting ability as well as a sad reflection on the truth of many people's complete inability to comprehend that particular disability. I sincerely hope none of you ever suffer an assault serious enough to afflict you with it. Anyway, back to the movie. The story was good with some great acting (esp the lead) and some okay acting (the priest, the blind kid). Very well filmed and the direction was excellent drawing you in emotionally as well as delivering a tense atmosphere of brooding suspense. There's a delightful nod to The Brood with the hooded characters but interestingly they are very grey in this movie - in stark contrast to Cronenberg's bright primary colours. That is a defining part of this flick - it's a lot of shades of grey in it's cinematography and very little colour, very much in keeping with the film's story & underlying themes of social decay. This is a clever aspect of the directing that I really appreciated. It does drag a couple of times but not enough to stop me watching and it has some genuinely heart-wrenching moments that draws you very much into the characters and makes you care about them. I realise it's a shoe- string budget affair and that's made me raise it's rating slightly because they managed to put together one of the better efforts of recent years without having the benefit of a big budget. My biggest beef is with the ending which seemed abrupt and left me thinking "um.... is that it?". More could have been done with it - even on a budget - a bit more payback, more fight-back from the two "heroes" and just a more OTT ending would have really elevated this movie. SPOILER HERE****Also, I felt like there was a sub-plot going on that got dropped but could have been used for a very nice open-ending to the movie ... (involving the baby girl - I wont say too much but for those who've seen it remember what the cause of death was for the first victim....and put that together with what the Priest said a few times about some kind of infection!)It felt like they meant to go somewhere with the "cause of death" thing but it never really surfaced again. All in all I recommend this movie to fans of thrillers and suspense movies as well as those interested in human drama. It might appeal to some horror fans too but doesn't have a lot of on-screen violence/gore. Well worth viewing.