The eventful summer for three Dublin lads after leaving school is chronicled in this attention-grabbing Irish movie. The direction is lively, helping to give the film a genuine energetic buzz, coupled with three strong and noteworthy performances from its young(ish) leads. With its mix of drug culture and toxic masculinity, the first act almost has the same sad and horribly inescapable inevitability of Blue Story, except that here there is a pivotal tragic event that leads the rest of the film to follow the three friends' very different reactions and its impact upon them. It is perhaps challenging to see one amoral character being superseded by another's misplaced moral centre, and the media satire sequences are a bit overplayed even if they have a clear purpose, but overall this is a very watchable and thought-provoking small-scale story.
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