betty dalton The mob can be beaten. An Irishman proved it. He got killed for it, but so did the head of the mob in Cleveland. Didnt know it was a true story. Just saw the trailer and wanted to indulge in just another gangster movie. It is a good one though. Quite impressive. Certainly because it really tells the tale of a true story about the Irish gangsters who literally blew up the Italian mob in Cleveland back in the seventies. Almost 40 bomb attacks in one city! Resulting in a designated hit on Danny Green, the tough Irish gangster who lead the revolt against the Italian mob in Cleveland.The lead character played by Ray Stevenson really has got charisma, the likes of Sean Connery had: bravoure with brass balls and a wink. This man really carries this picture. He is convincing as a mad Irishman who didnt gave a rat's ass if he lived or died. "It's up to the man above to decide". Really pleased with this picture. There arent many tough gangstermovies. There are a lot of movies that wanna look tough, but aint. This one is the real thing! Oh yeah!I wont say it's a gangster's masterpiece, but it is comparable to "Snatch" (2000) and " Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) both Guy Ritchie movies that portray the tough hooligan side of british gangsters. It is stripped of any of the elegance and glamour in other mob movies. It is rock hard, eye for an eye. It isnt really a classic mob movie, it is really a movie about how the mob in Cleveland gets wasted themselves, to the growing disbelief of crime bosses in New York. Who is this Irishman that is to be feared by everybody and defeats the Italian mob single handedly? True story! Pay attention to the endcredits in which is revealed that these Irish gangsters indirectly set in motion the biggest roll up of Italian mob bosses in the history of organised crime in the U.S.The endcredits also shows a short clip of an interview with the real Danny Green. What a guy!

NateWatchesCoolMovies I'm not too sure just how much of Kill The Irishman is based in actual truth, but if even half of what we see on screen did happen, that is some pretty impressive stuff. The film focuses on the life of Danny Greene (a bulked, sturdy Ray Stevenson), who was an Irish American mobster working out of Cleveland back in the 70's, a guy who seems to have caused quite a stir of chaos amongst organized crime back then. Getting a leg up from the longshoreman's union, Danny quickly rose to power alongside several other key figures including numbers man John Nardi (Vincent D'Onofrio), enforcer Joe Manditski (Val Kilmer) and nasty kingpin Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken). It seems it all went south pretty quick though, because before he knew it he was at odds with Birns, and dodging multiple brash assassination attempts coming at him from all directions. What's remarkable about Danny's story is his sterling resilience: something like over a dozen attempts were made on his life and the darn mick just kept on going, even taunting the underworld between car bomb blasts and raucous shoot outs. Of course, such a life alienates him from his wife (Linda Cardellini) and puts him in perpetual crosshairs, but Stevenson plays it casually cavalier, a gentleman gangster who really cares not for the danger he's wading into, and treads lightly amongst the mess, making me wonder if the real Greene had such an attitude and the sheer luck to back it up. Walken is quiet and dangerous in a somewhat underplayed role, but he is entertaining doing anything, so it's all good. The cast is enormous, and includes the like of Vinnie Jones as a bruiser of an Irish street soldier, Robert Davi in an explosive third act cameo as a lethal specialist brought in to neutralize Danny, and your usual kennel of Italian American character actors like Mike Starr, Bob Gunton, Tony Lo Bianco, Steve Schirippa, Paul Sorvino and others. It's loud, fast paced and ever so slightly tongue in cheek. As a crime drama it works great, could have been slightly longer, but Stevenson keeps things moving briskly with his affable, hyperactive performance and it goes with out saying that the rest of them provide excellent supporting work.

Prismark10 Kill the Irishman tells the story of mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and his rise to power in 1970s Cleveland. Green rose to be a local Union boss became a police informer when the heat got too much and then got into conflict with the mafia.The film is told from the viewpoint of cop, Val Kilmer who is too fat to be a cop is in conflict with Greene and actually wasted in the role.This is really low rent version of Goodfellas with less charismatic characters, B list cast, dodgy wigs and bad cgi. The plot goes at a breakneck speed, Greene has no education, works as a docker and a few punches later deposed the crooked union boss, got married to the local bar girl who subsequently leaves him and takes their children and you never hear from her again.Greene teams up with a local mafia hoodlum and together they take on the mafia chiefs which resulted in numerous car bombings in Cleveland which terrorised the citizens.The film is interesting enough because it is pacey, Stevenson tries to infuse his character with charisma and make him out to be a anti hero but is ultimately defeated by the script.

kvishal-u I had great expectations before I saw the movie, but by the time I finished it, I realized I had just wasted my time. This is no way how a gangster movie should be made. it is awfully slow and story is almost non existent. I am giving it 6 only because of some decent acting, otherwise it would have been somewhere 3 in my dictionary. Not recommended unless you don't have any other movie to watch.Maybe my expectations were too high but you can't blame me considering I had just seen TAKEN one day before and that was a pure treat. I guess the story could have been portrayed in a much better way. the ending is so anti-climax that I was just waiting for the movie to get over and thankfully it got over soon. I am also surprised how people here have given high scores, maybe because the film is based on a true story. However that does not take away the fact that movie is boring and nowhere near the cool gangster movies of which I am really fond of.