I have a chance to screen this tomorrow, but just screened the disaster "Your Highness" tonight, so I want to know if this is worth going to. I get to see Hanna Thursday, which I know I want to see, but I will go to this too if I won;t be wasting my time. thanks
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I loved it. I would recommend it.
shareconsidering it isn't anything at all like Your Highness I'm pretty sure it might good
shareI was affraid I was gonna hate it, but I loved it. What a great film.
Totally recommended. 8/10
Right now it has an average rate of 6.7 by 369 voters. A rating this early by so few votes is seldom correct though. My guess is that it will land on somewhere between 7 and 7.5 when it has had its release and the rating gets stabilized. I could recommend it to someone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju67DqaRE7k
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This is a great film. Way better than Hanna which was a disappointment.
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali
Awesome movie!!!! 8/10
shareThis is pretty terrible movie. The story is weak, the acting is even weaker. Don't waste your money.
shareThe story is weak? Its based on a true story you damn idiot.
shareYes, the story is weak. Instead of writing a film about a psychopath who murdered people in cold blood, they try to make some kind working-class hero out of Greene. He was not a hero, he was a *beep* lunatic. The story, as written by Hensleigh and Walters, is complete nonsense. It has nothing to do with whether or not it is based on a true story. They tried to glorify a murderer and failed.
shareWell since I know people that knew Danny Greene back when all that happened and said the movie resembled what was happening pretty well I will take their first hand account over you dumb ass opinion.
shareI am the author of the book - but did no work on the screenplay. I assure you there has been no intent to glorify Danny Greene, either in the book or in the film. The "problem" is that many people in Cleveland MADE him a working class hero. Danny was a natural for this role. Like many of the old time mobsters in the 20s or 30s, and just a handful in modern times, many (certainly not all) people in the community looked up to these men because of certain benefits they brought to the neighborhood. Danny was a throwback and scored very high in this area. And he was one of very very few outsiders, other than lawmen, who stood up to the Italian mobsters. There actually was, like in the film, a ballad of Danny Greene composed. All organized crime is a cancer on the nation, but Danny Greene, with all his sins, was legendary.
Rick Porrello
Author of To Kill the Irishman
Well, the movie did show a lengthy montage of him beating people up as enforcer for a loan shark and it also showed him stealing from the docks where he worked as well as his wife leaving him over his activities, so I don't know what you mean about trying to make him a hero.
Wow...nice job replying to a post I made over 3 years ago.
shareit's currently the best film i seen so far in 2011 out of the 12 total films i seen listed as 2011 by IMDB...
The Mechanic = 6/10
Street Kings 2: Motor City = 5/10
Just Go with It = 7/10 (maybe a 7.5)
Kill The Irishman = 8/10 (maybe a 7.5)
The Lincoln Lawyer = 6/10
I Am Number Four = 7/10 (probably a 6.5)
The Sunset Limited = 7/10 (maybe a 6.5)
Drive Angry = 7/10
Sniper: Reloaded = 6/10 (maybe a 6.5)
Limitless = 7/10
Unknown = 6/10 (maybe a 6.5)
Seconds Apart = 5/10 (probably a 4.5/10)
and in general... 6/10 or lower = Thumbs Down. 7/10 or higher = Thumbs Up
p.s. i have not seen 'Source Code' yet, but i suspect it will one of the best of 2011.
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My Vote History ... http://imdb.to/b5rrNh
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to update my previous post above which is just a hair over four years ago now. here is my Top 10-ish movies of 2011 when was all said and done...
1.Source Code - 8-8.5/10
2.The Descendants - 8/10
3.Young Adult - 7.5-8/10
4.Drive
5.Kill the Irishman
6.Just Go With It - 7/10
-.Fast Five
-.Mission Impossible 4
9.The Robber
-.Drive Angry
-.Carnage
i just re-watched Kill the Irishman just now (June 1st 2015) and while it's still a solid movie it dropped a bit as it was my #2 movie of 2011 and is now my #5 of 2011. prior to the slight drop off it was also within my Top 9-10 movies of the current decade out of the 425+ total movies i have seen released in the 2010 to date time frame to.
but anyways... Kill the Irishman could be a borderline 7-7.5/10 though but i was a little generous and went with a 7.5-8/10. it takes a little while to get going but finishes well which i think is what makes me give it the 7.5-8/10 instead of a 7-7.5/10.
SIDE NOTE: Source Code and The Descendants are within my Top 8 movies of the 2010's decade currently.
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My IMDb Movie Lists etc = http://goo.gl/pZ8XG
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The film is under-rated.Ray Stevenson is a real find,one of the few masculine actors to come along in some time..his prescence lends qualities to this collaborative effort that I cannot summon the words for, at present.
It does not hurt to have a legendary/long in the tooth group of cast
members...as well.
I am Irish/Italian American and lived my life on the periphery of the life the real characters chose.
In closing,the words that Armand Assante uttered while coming his hair and looking into a mirror ring so true in 2012{"Gotti"}film made a few years ago are so true."Some day their gonna wish their was a Johnn Gotti around."