Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

tfminfl A pretty awesome bio pic about Irish gangster Danny Greene. Ya see, Danny was pretty upset with the way he and his fellow workers were being treated by the boss, so one day he was pretty sick of it and marched into his bosses office and slapped him across the face, cause he's taking over, and he gets it...ahh if it were only that easy... but this boss was full on corrupt and lacked a spine, and that's how it starts, and then we watch Danny slap the crap out of anybody who stands in his way, making it too the top, and we all know what comes next, the fall. Really cool performance by Ray Stevenson, and a lot of familiar faces pop up as gangsters, same faces that have been playing gangsters since the 80s... Hmmm, maybe they are gangsters!?! And of course, Chris Walken makes an appearance as well, as only Chris Walken can, with pure awesomeness. Filmbufftim on FB.

Sankari_Suomi This quirky little film is a robust contribution to the popular and well established '**** me the Irish are a bunch of bastards, let's kick the crap out of them' genre. A young Irishman with a talent for corruption, violence, and gangland killings sets about carving a place for himself in the seedy filth of the Cleveland underworld. When captured by the FBI he sells out his friends and colleagues to become an informant, and exploits this position to advance his criminal career.Set in the 1970s at the height of the infamous 'Mafia versus pretty much anyone who's not Italian' wars, this action packed film based on real life events has a star studded cast, including Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, and Michael Finn Seamus McDonnell O'Flahahaherty.I rate Kill the Irishman at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as an impressive 8/10 on IMDb.

mikekozel The cast of players would be worth the time and whatever the fare. The story would be worth the time without the cast. The seamless direction, perfect flow, and consistent energy of the work is in itself sufficient for study and pure cinematic enjoyment. This work represents the best effort a team of professionals can give us. Great effects, visceral, brutal violence, great period design, brilliant direction and editing, and a very well made screenplay. The actors are so well cast, maybe a teeny bit stereotyped, but done so with those faces we love to see as characters from gang!and. Type casting aside, the actors were superb, with hardly a miss in timing and delivery. Cinematic art is not an individual effort. There are so many different crafts and talents necessary to create the whole piece, and evoke in the audience a sense of having been actually a part of the work. This film does that. It is the highest honor one can give a film, that for a couple of hours, you were there, with them, a spectator, but involved a bit in the story. So simple,really, to know a great film. This film, Kill The Irishman, is one of those. Is this ten lines? Thanks again for the opportunity to write, and having read thousands of words about this film, please accept this sincere, simple accolade for a great work.

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.