Plot:
It's the late 1910's and Michael Collins and Harry Boland are best friends and members of the Irish Republican Army and are fighting the British over home rule of Ireland. Tired of the traditional, and unsuccessful, methods of warfare, Collins begins to use guerilla style fighting where their members quickly strike one or two enemies and then disappear into the city. Information on whom to strike is supplied by officer Ned Broy, an IRA sympathizer and their actions bring a heavy and deadly response from the British. Soon Collins is the man the Irish cheer and the British hate as he simply steps up their attacks and forces the British to negotiate a treaty. But the president of the IRA, Eamon De Valera and others (including Harry) won't accept the treaty and branch off into their own military faction. With a civil war breaking out, Collins must do what he can to negotiate peace between his own country's waring factions and the British, while at the same time caring on a romance with Kitty Kiernan who earlier was involved with Harry. - Taken from Screen It!

Comment:
Michael Collins sounded like a boring historical movie but instead it was quite an interesting historical movie, albeit a bit too long and prolix.

There isn't much to say about it, the actors, the setting, the plot, the landscape, everything is good, there are no particularly negative points. Eventually, the most uninteresting part of the plot has been the description of sentimental life of Michael Collins which didn't seem too important in the whole story although it helped to give him a more complete characterization.

The ending is touching but not excessively prolix and tedious as it could have been, especially considering the style of the whole movie.