This is a brilliant piece of Irish Cinema, based on the masterpiece novel by Roody Doyle and adapted perfectly by Alan Parker.
It is such a shame that so few of the actors involved in this went on to do anything else. But that is the industries loss I suppose. The film has an outstanding soundtrack with some truely staggering vocals. I love the character of Deco because he is just such a total bastard but he is a great point of comedy within the film as the person everybody loves to hate. This is a laugh out loud film, and also maintains Doyle's original points about the unemployment in Dublin what with the arguement that "we're a fuckin' third world county".
This is masterpiece of cinema, and well worth a view. I would say that this film is one of the top 50 films and possibly the best film (that I've seen) that's come out of Ireland.