Review of Kill the Irishman (2011) by Scott G — 08 Jan 2012

Thisi film gets better as it goes along, the beginning didnt grab me, and Val kilmer whom I thought wasnt vital to story seemed to be moping about, but once Ray stevenson as Danny greene(the irishman of the story, a true life cleveland criminal) gets going it gets interesting a great deal, a american irish dock worker making his way up to union boss then pissing off the italian gangsters that run the unions, from here a war in cleveland breaks, this being around 1976/77.

many mob members on both sides lost their lives during this time, and the outcome made a big dent in the mob in the u.s. the film works well bringing all charactors togetrher and although not as polished as a scorsese mob film, it holds up Stevenson is solid as Danny and keeps film going.