Fresh
Hensleigh romanticizes Greene and doesn't have a very nuanced understanding of labor racketeering. That said, he does possess a fine eye for shabby urban landscapes and a nice way with explosions.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kill the Irishman
The man the mob couldn't kill.
2011 · 1h 46m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Jonathan Hensleigh
Overview
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Hensleigh Director
- Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene
- Vincent D'Onofrio as John Nardi
- Val Kilmer as Joe Manditski
- Christopher Walken as Shondor Birns
- Linda Cardellini as Joan Madigan
- Tony Darrow as Mikey Mendarolo
- Robert Davi as Ray Ferritto
- Fionnula Flanagan as Grace O'Keefe
- Bob Gunton as Jerry Merke
- Jason Butler Harner as Art Sneperger
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The cast makes up for some occasionally spotty storytelling and telegraphing of events that keep "Irishman" from being as good as it could have been.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh
What makes this film special and memorable is the character of Danny Green, who is not the usual neighborhood hoodlum you see in movies, the kind who gets in deep and gradually loses his soul.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Stevenson is big and swarthy and not altogether without credibility, but he's got as much charisma as a potato.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
The problem is that writer-director Jonathan Hensleigh doesn't do much beyond filling in the template; he's telling the specific, true-life tale of mob decline in 1970s Cleveland, but every character and setpiece feels like it fell off a truck.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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