AFTER suffering countless Brit flicks about meatheaded mobsters, I've finally found a thug I can root for. This hugely impressive debut feature from Nick Rowland is set on the west coast of Ireland, but feels a million miles away from southern England and its moronic Essex Boy bouncers and chirpy cockney murderers.
Cosmo Jarvis brings soul and heart to dim-witted man-mountain Douglas "Arm" Armstrong, a disgraced former boxer who is now working as a hired fist for a family of drug-dealing scumbags.
These are the locally feared Devers, headed by the filthy Paudi (Ned Dennehy) and his marginally more presentable brother Hector (David Wilmot).
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