GamerTab That was an excellent one.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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!

classicsoncall If I hadn't checked, I would have thought this film was made over a decade ago, certainly not as recently as 2011. It has a definite feel for the era it represents, Cleveland in the mid Seventies, and the use of news and film clips of the time lend a degree of authenticity to the the story of mobster Danny Greene. I guess I'm behind the curve by a few years as I haven't seen Ray Stevenson before, so I was unsure why he was heading a cast that included Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken. Fortunately he acquits himself well enough as Irishman Danny Greene, who rises from the Cleveland docks to become president of the longshoremen's union, and insinuates his way into the local Mafia by virtue of a business loan that goes sour and an arrangement as an informant for the FBI. As far as gangster films go, I wouldn't put this one in the same league as say "Goodfellas" or "Miller's Crossing", but it does offer an interesting look at how the Cleveland mob operated during the Seventies and it's association with the Gambino crime family in New York. Walken's character Shondor Birns is entertaining as the provider of financial services to men who like to gamble, and if I had to guess, might be the only actor to ever use the term 'vigorish' in a movie; I haven't see enough episodes of 'The Sopranos' to know otherwise. But if you're familiar with the Mafia and how their hierarchy operates, you know it's only a matter of time until Danny gets the kind of justice that made headlines throughout the era, a front page mob hit that takes out another crime kingpin.

dworldeater 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.

djderka I was surprised at how this was a really well told story.It was made in 2011, but took place in the mid 70s. It is the story of Danny Greene an Irish mobster who would not sell out to the Italian mafia as they fought over turf in Cleveland.And the Director, Jonathan Hensleigh did a great job on the direction and script. Too many who knew him, Danny had a 'good' side and a bad side and it was represented in the movie. Danny served Turkeys at holidays, saved an old lady from an explosion, yet easily planted a bomb to eliminate adversaries. Jonathan told the story in 70's film language which has a lot of natural lighting, some hand held camera, realistic scenes, and sort of a cinema-verite feel to the movie. This made the film seem like a documentary but without the ponderous narrator and constant talking heads. Hensleigh told the story with action and character. The lighting, film stock, and camera work was reminiscent of The French Connection, a gritty 70's film.Ray Stevenson was almost a look alike for the real Danny Greene and added to the realism of the story.Even the fights were very realistic. There was no whack, thwack of a bamboo rod on leather as is typically overdone in movies. Those fights are a realism unmatched in cinema. a) they did not go on forever, with high kicks and constant up and down moments for the hero. b) sound of fist heating a chin was very real. Fights aren't an array of sound effects. c) most real fights end pretty quickly as in the movie, a few punches and the guy is down and you beat him up, he doesn't keep popping up like a whack a mole after being knocked out. Thank goodness the fights didn't go on forever with 'artsy' camera angles.The feel of this movie was gritty, and matched the grittiness of the story and labor (garbage and longshoreman activities) and you didn't feel the supporting cast was acting but that you were watching a mafia spy cam on their activities. See the extra features and the movie is pretty much the real story. The supporting cast of name actors had them nicely blended into the background and not upstaging the main character. Nicely done.I liked the incorporated newsreel footage, and forgot about all those explosions in the 70s in Cleveland. Funny how bombs are the "weapon"of choice for criminal types.Thank goodness Scorsese did not direct this movie as it would have been over lit and much more hyped up and with those whack fist effects and other posed scenes.And people died in these explosions, they didn't run ahead of them like Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford to "beat" the blast.If want to learn about the historic story of mobster vs. mobster in the 70s and an icon of resistance...this is the movie.