Kill the Irishman

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Category: Action

Year: 2011

Rating: 6.8/10 ()

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh

Country: USA

Language: English

Runtime: USA: 106 min

Taglines: Based on the true story of Danny Greene the man the mob couldn't kill

Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh (screenplay), Jeremy Walters (screenplay), and 1 more credit »

Movie Storyline
The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Cast:
Ray Stevenson - Danny Greene
Vincent D'Onofrio - John Nardi
Val Kilmer - Joe Manditski
Christopher Walken - Shondor Birns
Linda Cardellini - Joan Madigan
Tony Darrow - Mikey Mendarolo
Robert Davi - Ray Ferritto
Fionnula Flanagan - Grace O'Keefe
Bob Gunton - Jerry Merke
Jason Butler Harner - Art Sneperger
Vinnie Jones - Keith Ritson
Tony Lo Bianco - Jack Licavoli
Laura Ramsey - Ellie O'Hara
Steve Schirripa - Mike Frato (as Steven R. Schirripa)
Paul Sorvino - Tony Salerno
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Color: Color

Filming Locations: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Official Site(s): Anchor Bay Films [United States] |

Trivia:
The production temporarily re-opened the retired Tiger Stadium known as Navin Field for approximately one week. The stadium originally opened in 1912 and closed 87 years later when the Detroit Tigers departed for their new facility. The stadium was then demolished after the production completed filming.

User Review:

Worth seeing, but it's NOT going to be a Mob Classic , rated: 7/10
I had a chance to catch this at the Sunshine Theater on East Houston in NYC. I was looking forward to seeing this movie after reading about it a few months ago, and luckily found a theater that was actually screening it. I initially heard of Danny Green from the Mobsters series on BIO Channel, so I already knew the background story, and overall this movie keeps things pretty real in that regard(with some dramatics added here and there for the sake of entertainment). Overall I was slightly disappointed as parts of the movie and the dialog was too "Hollywoody". Casting Christopher Walken for example, he's become such a fixture of humor because of the way he talks, so when he talks in this movie about serious subjects, its still funny. Plus the meetings and interactions(especially amongst the Italian characters) was so typical it seemed like a 18 year old wrote the script after watching a few episodes of the Sopranos. The special effects seemed very low budget on the car bombing sequences, you can totally see a green screen poorly camouflaged into the some of the shots. That being said it is a good movie, just not a classic like Goodfellas, The Godfather, or even something one tier lower like Casino or The Departed. Ray Stevenson is awesome and is able to carry the movie past some of the shortcomings I mentioned, but with the talented names in the cast and the storyline they had to work with, it could have been so much better.