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‘Bring Them Down’ Review: A Blood-Soaked Irish Drama That Lays Low Its Feuding Characters
Christopher Andrews' feature debut 'Bring Them Down' casts Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan as familial rivals trapped by circumstance.
Fittingly, like its emotionally stunted male characters, it doesn’t confront these notions head on, but lets them quietly build in the form of a simmering blood feud that feels all-encompassing in the moment, but upon taking a step back, reveals a pitiable quality. For much of the movie’s first half, Andrews sends Michael journeying through night-time landscapes — which obscure violent imagery before revealing it at specific, gut-churning moments — in order to either gather his flock, or enact revenge on a father-son duo who seem downright sociopathic. However, when the film doubles back and unfurls new layers to its seeming antagonist, Michael begins to come off equally unhinged, plunging all three men (four, if you count Ray) into a deeply dispiriting and at times bleakly funny tale in which bloodshed is all but inevitable.
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