Online Movie Review Kill The Irishman 2011

Anchor Bay Films and Code Entertainment film production companies has thrown a film entitled Kill The Irishman, which is based on the book entitled To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia written by Rick Porrello, to the market which has been so full of movies about the real life of a real person. Such a provocative movie title, but it is true, and is based on a true story. Again, Hollywood film industry takes one person’t life, which has already recorded in a book, into the big screen.

Now, starring Ray Stevenson, the story is around the life of a mob leader, say, not much different from an Italian mafioso, named Danny Greene (played by Ray Stevenson himself) who comes from an Irish background. He is even so proud of his ethnical background. The film shows the audiences the chronicle of his life starts from his childhood in Cleveland, his working period as a dock worker to top as the Union President.

And then Greene is hired by a loan shark named Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) as an enforcer. But he is determined to claim power and top position, not to become the “employee” of the other. His ego blows up and it trigger some issues around the gang people. So, the Italian mafioso (now this is real) has ordered to kill him whatever the way, but from one assassination trial to another do not show a good result in the death of the Irishman. Thus Danny Greene is then famous as “the man who cannot be killed”.

 

The core of the story is actually triggering, indeed. For it is always funny to chase after someone to finish him off for good but the attempt is always failed. Somehow, it will trigger your laugh or giggle. For sure, the one who wants to kill the man who cannot be killed will look like a fool. Say, it will be like Lord Voldemort who wants to kill Harry Potter but he is always failed. Such a pity, yet funny. Unfortunately, though the film director Jonathan Hensleigh seems to have done a great filming process, he did not seem to do more to explore the character of Greene deeper and make the story more detailed. It looks only like a 100 or so minutes of bang-bang, explosion, chasing after, and fist fighting without good story line.