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Kill the Irishman

Kill the Irishman (2011)

March. 11,2011
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| Drama Action Thriller Crime

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.

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Cebalord
2011/03/11

Very best movie i ever watch

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Moustroll
2011/03/12

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Lumsdal
2011/03/13

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

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Executscan
2011/03/14

Expected more

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PiperDrummer29
2011/03/15

For many of us who grew up in Cleveland during the Mafia Wars and remember quite well the bombings and killings, it is too bad that this wasn't filmed at the locations where events occurred in and around Cleveland. It takes away from a great story written by Rick Porello, and a pretty damn good movie. I can't help but make faces and be annoyed by the drastic differences between the "film locations" and the "actual locations".

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LeonLouisRicci
2011/03/16

There is a coldness to the warm heart of this "Robin Hood" as portrayed here and that seems to be the only attempt to capture the real brutal side of this Schizophrenic Mobster. It is a one note Performance about a two tiered Thug. The Movie's Film Stock (most likely post production that made it look that way) has a very 1970's sheen to it that is amazingly authentic as are most of the Sets, Wardrobe, and Hairstyles.Fictional Realism seems to be the buzz here and most of it works really well. Incorporating real TV New footage with a seamless effect is another cu-do worth mentioning. The Bio part of the Movie is rather rushed and all surface and mostly cheats its way to an imbalance and manipulation to make our Anti-Hero more Hero than Anti.Overall it is well done if not at all Stylish and it is rather shallow in a lot of respects, but the "Truth" of the Story does come through and we are more informed than not about a really bizarre and very unusual situation about Tribal Warfare in and on the Streets of the Melting Pot. If you ever wondered why no one ever took on the Mafia at their own Game, well, here it is.

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dworldeater
2011/03/17

Ray Stevenson really delivers a powerful performance as Irish mobster Danny Greene. Few actors can pull off dramatic stuff such as this while being so damn tough . Based on the life of real Irish crimelord Danny Greene this is very similar in style to Goodfellas and also shares some of the support cast of aforementioned mob classic . This also reminds me of the Sly Stallone crime classic FIST. Of which is a tough film in its own right , but also a well made , story, character driven drama like this film. Kill The Irishman has one of the best supporting casts around which includes Vincent D'Onofrio, Christopher Walken, Vinny Jones and Val Kilmer(plus half of the cast of Goodfellas ). Ray Stevenson holds his own among all of these great actors by playing Greene smart, tough , charismatic and ruthless . Dialogue is delivered just as well as brutal beatings.Danny Greene is truly a tragic figure and Kill The Irishman exhibits some humanity as well as making him sympathetic and likable . Excellent.

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MBunge
2011/03/18

In real life, Danny Greene was a tough and colorful Irish-American criminal who went to war against the Mafia for control of his native Cleveland during the 1970s. This movie gets the "tough and colorful Irish-American" and the "war against the Mafia" stuff right, but kind of skimps on the whole "criminal" thing. Gangsters can be charismatic and impressive and have admirable qualities, but gangsters are also fundamentally bad men. What defines them is they don't have a problem with hurting or killing other people for their own greed. Kill The Irishman goes so far overboard with making Danny Greene a folk hero that it loses any sense of perspective and any chance at being a really good mob movie. This film sugarcoats and soft peddles the darker elements of the man and his story, coming off more like propaganda than cinema.I'm not saying this movie is terrible. It's relatively entertaining but keeps bumping into its superficial dishonesty about the nature of Danny Greene. There have been too many movies and TV shows and books and news reports about the ugly truth of America's underworld to buy the tale of a charming rouge that co-writer Jeremy Walters and co-writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh are trying to sell. I mean, when they show Danny and his crew beating the crap out of innocent garbage men in order to try and take over the business for the mob, it's presented like it was all fun and games. When one of Danny's friends objects to the squeeze being put on his garbage hauling firm, the movie portrays this hard working businessman like he's being the unreasonable and dangerous one. It all feels so fake that you can't fully appreciate the unique qualities of the real Danny Greene and the ultimate significance of his story.It's too bad because the movie has a good rhythm and pace and a strong, though perhaps overly large, cast of characters. Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene continues to demonstrate here that he is the big time leading man Hollywood has been seeking for years to take over for those stars who hit in big in the 80s and are now getting stuff in the mail from AARP. He has that old school aura where it feels like he had a real life before taking up this acting stuff. It's a natural depth of character that most actors, especially pretty boys who get started in the industry before they're old enough to legally drink, simply aren't good enough to fake.Vincent D'Onofrio also continues to build his legacy as one of the best and most entertaining actors of his time. He gives mobster John Nardi his own distinct speech pattern and tone of voice without it every sounding like an affectation. If you'd never seen him before, you'd come away from this film thinking that's just the way D'Onfrio talks. I think you could give this guy the same role 50 times and he could come up with 50 different ways of doing it and they'd all be completely believable. And with Mike Starr, Paul Sorvino, Robert Davi, Steve Schirripa and the great Christopher Walken rounding things out, along with good work from Linda Cardellini and Laura Ramsey in the typically thankless wife/girlfriend roles, there are no complaints to be had with the acting in Kill The Irishman.If you're a fan of the mob genre and are looking for an okay flick to fill up an evening, Kill the Irishman isn't a bad choice. Aside from some phony-looking CGI flames for some explosion scenes, this is a competent and modestly engaging little effort. If you watch it too soon after seeing Goodfellas, however, you'll be rolling your eyes so hard and so often that they'll probably pop clean out of your head.

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