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• Is Taffin a good movie?▾

  Taffin holds a TMDB rating of 5.6, placing it in the mixed-to-mediocre range. The film has gained a cult following largely thanks to Pierce Brosnan's much-memed line delivery, though it is generally regarded as a minor action thriller of its era.

• Where was the movie Taffin filmed?▾

  Taffin was filmed on location in Ireland, with much of the production based in County Wicklow. The town scenes were shot in areas around Dublin and the surrounding Irish countryside.

• How does the movie Taffin end?▾

  Taffin and the townspeople ultimately confront the syndicate behind the chemical plant scheme, with Taffin leading a violent showdown that defeats the corrupt developers. The town is saved from the plant being built, and Taffin reconciles with Charlotte.

• What is Taffin?▾

  Taffin is a 1988 Irish-British action thriller directed by Francis Megahy, starring Pierce Brosnan as Mark Taffin, a debt collector who takes on a corrupt syndicate trying to build a chemical plant in a small Irish town. The film runs 96 minutes and is based on the novel of the same name by Lyndon Mallet.

• What does Mark Taffin do for a living?▾

  Taffin is a freelance debt collector in a small Irish town, hired by locals to recover money from people who refuse to pay up. He's an educated, well-read loner who uses intimidation and his fists rather than a regular job, which sets him apart from the close-knit community around him.

• What is the corrupt development scheme the townspeople are fighting?▾

  A group of businessmen, backed by hired muscle, plan to bulldoze a local sports field and build a chemical plant on the site. The deal has been pushed through with bribes and intimidation, and when the townspeople try to protest peacefully they are beaten, which pushes them to hire Taffin to fight back.

• Why does Taffin initially refuse to help the town, and what changes his mind?▾

  Taffin sees the dispute as none of his business and tells the locals it isn't the kind of job he takes on. He gets pulled in after the developers' enforcers escalate the violence against people he knows, including his brother and his love interest Charlotte, turning it into a personal fight rather than a paid contract.

• How does the film end?▾

  Taffin leads a counter-attack against the developers' hired thugs at the construction site, and in the final confrontation he kills the main enforcers and stops the chemical plant from going ahead. The town is left to bury its dead and rebuild, with Taffin surviving but visibly marked by what the fight cost him and the people around him.