• "There are only so many ways you can do a buddy crime caper. The nice things about "I Went Down" concern not so much what happens as who it happens to."-Dan Webster(The Spokesman)

• "I Went Down is one of those rare comic films that verges on the hyperbolic, but has characters and situations and a plot that are always believable. Sharply scripted, superbly acted and skillfully directed, I Went Down is a clever, inventive and thoroughly entertaining film."-Benjamin Long (CitySearch)

• "I'm now pleased to be able to report that 'I Went Down' is almost certainly the first Irish feature film to be named after a sexual act. Of course, you might observe that many Irish feature films have sucked, but I couldn't possibly comment."-Paul Duane

• "This film has been described as "the Coen brothers meet Roddy Doyle ..." and it's obvious that I Went Down teeters between that fine line of comedy and an offbeat thriller."- Jayne Margetts (Celluloid Review)

• "Git is the more reasonable character, and because he's so reasonable, so loyal, he gets himself in trouble."-Conor MacPherson

• "This road movie isn't a belly laugher. Rather it's amusing and sometimes hard to understand. But its characters are rich and comic, its talented actors fun to watch and the quirky screenplay by 28-year-old Conor McPherson fairly inventive. The ending has overtones of the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, but it's no big surprise.

• "Since many Irish films make use of the country's luscious, rolling green hills and winding roads, Breathnach opted to shoot on the dismal flats of the Irish midlands. He says too often the scenery upstages the characters in Irish films. He wanted it to work the other way."-Jane Sumner (The Dallas Morning News)

• "The film is populated by quirky, scuzzy characters, but unlike numerous Tarantino wannabes in this country, director Paddy Breathnach and screenwriter Conor McPherson find their own voice, one that relies more on an unhurried, loping style and sly humor than in-your-face violence."-Robert W. Butler (Knight Ridder Newspapers)

• "Looks like the lads at the pub have been watching a wee bit too much Quentin Tarantino: "I Went Down", an Irish comic thriller, veers beyond homage to being purely derivative. With its chatty gangsters talking trivia, title cards, and the now-obligatory shot from the car trunk's point of view, what it isn't taking from "Pulp Fiction" or "Reservoir Dogs" it's chipping from "Trainspotting"."-Sara Wildberger (Knight Ridder Newspapers)

• "Any gangster movie that opens with a quote from Plato's Republic (for the record: "I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston") and builds its plot around a few satisfyingly plausible explanations of its title immediately sets itself apart from the pack and demands inclusion on any discerning moviegoers must-see list for the summer season."-Eddie Cockrell(Nitrate online review)

• "The satisfying poetic justice of "I Went Down's" twisty ending will fulfill anyone's need for closure, but the loopy ride that Git and Bunny take us on while getting there is more than half the fun."-Michael O'Sullivan (The Washington Post Company)

• I feel bad to always point out the difficulty understanding Irish-accented dialogue (my last victimization coming at the hands of "The Butcher Boy"), but it's a simple fact that many of the jokes, and even plot points, don't make any impact at all due to the garbled nature of their presentation.-Paul Tatara(CNN)

• I feel bad to always point out that some close-minded American film critics should learn to understand "you are an eejit"...they'll need it.

What Peter has said about them

• "[The Irish sense of humour]'s one of the main things behind this film. The entertainment factor. You get to know these characters very well, and their relationship is compelling. They're very funny characters and the situations they get into are really funny. I've seen audiences really belly-laugh at this film. The other thing is that I was born just as the trouble had started up in [Northern Ireland] but it's not in my experience. It happened in the North. I lived in Dublin and it only happened on the television for me. And that's true for the majority of people who live in the Republic of Ireland. There are many other different stories to be told and they're being told now."

• "Well, the first thing that I liked about the character of Git was that, at the centre of this film (which is about gangsters) is a very quiet, sensitive, fellow who doesn't want to be in this situation. He's kind of swimming in different waters than he's used to. So he's a bit of an audience membre in this story, in that he keeps his own counsel. You learn more about the way Git reacts to situations than what he actually says about them. And as an actor, that's a gift on screen, because you get to use your face to display the character physically. And because screen allows for such subtlety, it was a really good challenge. I also think he's more introverted (in this situation) than he would normally be. But underneath that, he's just someone who's quite alone in the world. And it's the same for Bunny. And though Bunny's an extrovert, with flamboyance and aggression, they pretty much share the same underlying concerns. And it's those qualities that you try to get across in your performance."

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