Review of Give 'em Hell, Malone (2009) by Noname   — 06 Dec 2014

I seriously don't see how anyone that watches this can't love it. Don't get me wrong, the movie is a complete cliche of everything noir and Dick Tracy combined. However, if you are watching the movie because you like Thomas Jane then you may be disappointed. The movie is not "hey I'm Thomas Jane, come watch me act." It is Give 'em Hell Malone. This seems to be the brunt of most of the bad reviews when it comes to this movie. Everyone appears to just want to see Thomas Jane being Thomas Jane, and they forget that is going out of his comfort zone in this movie.

Now then: Storyline, confusing at first but very nice. It is about as guessable as most Hollywood based flicks these days. The only true complaint about this movie that I have is that at times it is very hard to hear what Malone is saying unless you have your speakers turned way up. Of course this becomes an issue when the following sequence is a shoot out and you wake up every neighbor within a 3 block radius because they think a drive by is occurring at your house.

The story overall was well done in my opinion, and Matchstick is by far the best character in the movie. The dry humor and one-liners are the absolute best part of this movie. One of the best parts of the movie is Matchstick telling Malone "At first when I got burned I thought fire hated me. But you know what I realized? You know what I learned Malone? I learned that fire is my friend." To which Malone replies "What you should've learned was not to play with matches." Just the simple one liners such as that make this a great movie. It is definitely not in everyone's taste and most women that I know do not like the movie. I am still hoping they finish the story by making a second part to this movie.