Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

chrisrolfny Unfortunately a waste of time. It might have worked in Ireland. I hoped at the start it might have at least the charm, if not the first class humor of say, the wonderful innocents turned Hit-men, "I Went Down". But there is no joy in this bottle.With a much too scrumptious cast for it's left-over script; this film squanders Postlethwaite, Rappaport, Saul Rubinek and Amanda Plummer all of whom have been put to wonderful use by director/writer combos with actual talent.But when you take two leads from years of unremarkable TV success and team them with the (in this case) unwatchable Donnie Wahlberg (no longer the New Kid on anyone's block), all costumed in outfits that must be from dumpster diving (and I may be being too harsh on the possibilities of found clothing), all sleep walking through sets more budget hunted and painful to look at than the unfolding of the plot...And you have an thoroughly un-enjoyable waste of 2 hours. I would have liked to have been able to find even one great moment or turn of the proverbial page, but, I do a service to all by saying... Save your time and move on.

MBunge Triggermen starts out as a bad blend of Martin Scorsese and Cameron Crowe, then turns into an even worse mix of Crowe and Nora Ephron. It's the sort of film that, while you're watching it, you frequently stop and think to yourself "Wow. This is really not any good at all." From a relentless soundtrack that never stops assaulting your ears to a story that plops itself into that groove of maximum dullness equidistant from both comedy and drama to scenes that I hope were lamely improvised or else I'm afraid that writer Tony Johnston might have some kind of brain tumor, this is a movie where almost nothing works. I say almost because Claire Forlani is always nice to look at and Donnie Wahlberg proves again here that he is, amazingly enough, the more talented Wahlberg brother.At the risk of giving you a brain cramp, here's the plot. Andy and Pete (Andrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey) are a couple of British crooks who've found themselves stranded in Chicago. Pete manages to steal a briefcase that a mobster (Louis Di Banco) intended for a pair of out-of-town killers (Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Rapaport). The briefcase leads Andy and Pete to a hotel room where they learn the mobster wants the killers to murder a retiring crime boss (Pete Postlethwaite), who also happens to be staying at the same hotel. Andy and Pete decide to live it up in the hotel room for a couple of days on the mobster's dime, until the mobster and his right hand thug (Bill MacDonald) show up and mistake Andy and Pete for the out-of-town killers. Meanwhile, the Wahlberg half of the actual assassins gets infatuated with a beautiful woman (Claire Forlani) he sees at the hotel, who turns out to be the daughter of the retiring crime boss. Then Andy's pregnant girlfriend (Amanda Plummer) flies across the Atlantic and shows up at the hotel…and if you haven't had an aneurysm by now, you've probably got a good sense of where it all goes from there.Andy as a hapless blob and Pete and the overly enthusiastic friend who always gets him into trouble are vaguely amusing. The rest of the characters are as dry as desert sand and as shallow as a puddle of tears. The closest any of them come to human emotion is when Michael Rapaport feels neglected after his partner ditches him to make time with a girl. The rest of the performances are either so coarse they make a Catskills comedian seem subtle or so vacant they make the void of outer space seem like a more interesting dinner date. And while it's pretty standard for this kind of film to be propelled along by the characters' dumb decisions, these people are so moronic they shouldn't be able to dress themselves.And let me again mention how aggravating the soundtrack of this thing was. I'm trying hard to block it all out, but I don't think there was a single scene-to-scene transition in the entire movie that wasn't underlined by 10 to 15 seconds of some annoying pop rock song. It got to the point where I began to wish that human beings as a species where born deaf, so that music would have never been invented and I would have been spared the umpteen melody missiles that Triggermen fired into my brain.Nothing is helped by John Bradshaw's patchwork quilt approach to direction. There are bits like something out of a heist picture, bits out of something like a Coen Brothers' gangster picture, bits out of your basic romantic comedy, bits like a teen sex comedy and even a bit that belongs in some indy flick about men coming to grips with their latent homosexuality.Sitting through Triggermen is a tiresome experience that no one else needs to go through. I suffered enough for the rest of the world.

cherylktardif (Warning: possible spoilers!) Two bumbling Limey cons, Pete and Andy (Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar are perfectly cast in these roles) are mistaken for professional hit men, Terry and Tommy (Donny Wahlberg and Michael Rapaport), and he fun begins. Pete and Andy just want enough money to get home to the UK, until one of them steals a suitcase left in a hotel lobby. Inside the suitcase, the cons discover a large amount of cash and a contract to kill Ben Cutler (Pete Postlethwaite), a Chicago crime lord. And there's the enticement of more money when the 'job' is done.Meanwhile Terry and Tommy are waiting for their assignment and Terry becomes distracted by the lovely Emma (Claire Forlani). Terry wants out of the business; he wants a "normal" life with a wife and family. While he is busy chasing Claire, poor Pete and Andy are swept up into the high life. The client, Franco D'Amico (played convincingly by Louis Di Bianco), believes the Limeys are true professionals and waits patiently for the hit to be carried out.To steal from the movie, it's like "Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys join the mob". There is a particular scene at the end that may remind some of a Three Stooges-like scenario. Just when Pete and Andy think they're doomed, in stumbles Andy's pregnant girlfriend Penny (Amanda Plummer), who suddenly has a purpose in the movie.There is a huge role reversal in the end, and of course a happy ending for Terry and Emma, who it turns out is the daughter of crime boss Ben Cutler who is also looking at "retiring". As Tommy and Pete ride off into the sunset on two motorcycles, I'm thinking Triggermen 2 could be just around the corner. This movie was surprisingly good, with enough dead bodies and a "Pulp Fiction" kind of humor. Very enjoyable!!--Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of The River and Whale Song (2007, Kunati Inc. Book Publishers)

WARFAIR I just can make it short: It´s a great movie! The actors play very well and the whole story never gets boring. Maybe some more twists would have been better but - again - to make it short: If you have a chance, see it if crime-comedy is what you like! 8 out of 10!!!