although i do not question that imdb fan love movie and i sometimes think their critical faculty have fall through a crack in the floorboard . i grow up literally 200 metre from the place where veronica guerin be shoot and so the issue and the politics have be common currency and the story be well know to me before i belatedly saw this film . the cast and location be pretty convincing and a be sense of tawdry and sleazy amorality which be the reality of crime . but the real crime here be the woeful miscasting of cate blanchet and and this i think and be why the movie never really take off at the box office . to any dubliner and or indeed irish person and her accent be just wrong and and give that she be surround by native irish actor of some account and her pain be palpable . she choke on her line and and be never steady in any scene . she doesn not seem to have a real relationship with anyone and and be like a ghost in the world of the living . i felt genuine sympathy for this talented actress . all in all and a waste of a fine cast and and a fine lead lady .