We meet his mates, including John ( Cillian Murphy), who hates his job in a supermarket, and Oscar ( David Wilmot), who despairs of finding a girlfriend and is advised to target older ladies, who will be grateful for his attention. Like "Pulp Fiction," the movie begins with sweet talk that suddenly turns violent, as Lehiff (Farrell) betrays a hard side. Whether the sauce is Dad's or HP, the two favorite brands in Ireland, is impossible to say, perhaps because both sauce manufacturers preferred to keep their labels out of this movie. Here is yet more evidence that " Pulp Fiction" was the most influential movie of recent years, as eccentric characters with distinctive verbal styles coil around a plot involving romance, betrayal, kidnapping, bank robbery and a lot of brown sauce. That its cast includes Colin Farrell, now a big movie star, is less remarkable than the fact that the cast is so large and colorful that we sometimes lose track of him. The movie is a dark comedy - no, make that a dark, dark, dark comedy - set in Dublin and starring more or less everyone in town. That it succeeds is some kind of miracle there's enough material here for three bad films, and somehow it becomes one good one. but "Intermission" goes on and on, in a tireless series of inventions, like a plot-generating machine in overdrive. Here is a movie where the characters discover that brown steak sauce tastes great in coffee, where a TV producer wants "more reality" after filming a rabbit race, where a cop's car is stolen while he's carrying out a drug bust, where.
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