Colin Farrell is Detective Sonny Crockett, and Jamie Foxx is Detective Lieutenant Ricardo Tubbs.

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Colin Farrell plays Captain John Smith, who lands in 1607 at what will become Jamestown, Virginia.

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The Tierney clan has another cop in the family: Jimmy ( Colin Farrell) is married to their sister (Lake Bell).

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"There aren't a lot of gruesome scenes, " agrees Ronan, recently seen alongside Colin Farrell in prisoner escape yarn The Way Back.

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Worst of all, Colin Farrell stares dumbly at the audience.

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Given this strategy it is only a matter of time before some studio exec decides that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck would be an even better Butch and Sundance, or that Casablanca would be fresher with Colin Farrell as Bogart.

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Cruise is on top form here, and there is nice work from Irish actor Colin Farrell as his right-hand man, and Samantha Morton as the android-like "pre-cog" who predicts future murders and might just hold the key to Anderton's innocence.

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There's romance aplenty in that, and more in the thrill of the music itself, sung by Bridges and by the gifted young Irish actor Colin Farrell, who plays Tommy Sweet, a former protege who has eclipsed his mentor and leapt to stardom.

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Colin Farrell, buzzing with the chance to speak in his native accent again, plays a mean piece of work named Lehiff, whose plan is to take a girl hostage and thereby put the squeeze on her new man, the manager of a bank.

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