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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Vanishings: A mix of The Bill and a horror movie, this Irish crime drama has me gripped
Loosely based on the book Missing, Presumed by Alan Bailey, a true-crime account of how 15 women were kidnapped and killed, it's part police procedural, part horror movie.
On warm days when the streets are full of people in shorts and T-shirts, Britain’s arms and legs look like a mass Scrabble contest — a jumble of disconnected letters. When detectives in the Dublin police thriller The Vanishings pull in a thug called Mark Bulger (Brian Moore), he clenches his fists and rests them menacingly on the table. Ireland’s police, the Gardai, don’t come out of it well — half of them are lazy, drunken, incompetent bullies who make no effort to hide their opinion that young women out after dark are asking to be raped.
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