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!

Gre da Vid The pros and cons of living a life with or against the mob in the 1970s. Well, mostly the cons.

SnoopyStyle In a flashforward to 1975, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) survives a car bomb attempt in Cleveland. In 1960, he and friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen. He takes on corrupt union boss Jerry Merke who doesn't care about the working members. Sneperger is in gambling debt to Cleveland Mafia John Nardi (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Danny offers to help him steal from the docks. Danny takes over the union and marries Joan (Linda Cardellini). Police Detective Joe Manditski (Val Kilmer) takes him down and he's banned from unions. He gets work from loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken). After a dispute over money, he gets into a car bombing war with New York mobsters. He gains notoriety as the "Robin Hood of Collinwood" surviving multiple murder attempts.This is very much a Goodfellas wannabe including a "Based on a True Story" moniker. There isn't anything wrong with aspiring to be one of the best films of all times. It's got plenty of solid actors in the many supporting roles. D'Onofrio is a standout although it may be trying to fit in too many characters. As for Ray Stevenson, he has a really powerful presence. He's a hulking man. The movie has minor flaws here and there that keeps it from being a truly great mobster movie. Some of the side characters need to step up. The wife and mistress are bland. The movie doesn't always flow well but it's a good watch.

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.