Hardly a waste of time but a nice 2 hour absorbing ride into the world of crime and how easy it is to engage in it. All you have to do is be willing to do what ever it takes. This movie demonstrates that dynamic and more. Strong acting and all the well-known supporting actors that you have seen in the different mob movies are in this one. Enjoy as they all give their best inner mobster a chance to come out and play. Objectively speaking, if one wants to go around killing everyone by blowing them up they can but at some point it can be done to you too thus the life of a mobster has no future. Even during peaceful times such as displayed in the Godfather movie, one can be shot because another wants to move up. This world is one that we refer to when we play the game King of the Mountain where we each try to hold the top spot until dethroned. This is shown quite well in this movie too. I like gangster, cop and gritty real-life movies because we see how there is no normal life for anyone who leans toward and practices the dark side principals. Doing the right thing tends to be its own reward but for the some it is not enough thus these type of movies become glamourized and entertaining. Good snack movie with a tasty drink. I was sorry to see this guy get his comeuppance but knew it had to come sooner or later. Why? This life-style says so...Watch and enjoy you wont just...

Simply dreadful. Opening scene sets the tone so at least you know the level of crap that's left watch.... Don't bother unless u find it ironically funny. From terrible cg, awful dialog, cheesy jokes, bad acting and the rising terror star reminding you more of king pins Amish. At one point I thought I was watching a musical without the signing... There is however, plenty of Irish jig music and potato talk. Green seems to have bitch slapped his way to being Union president... That's right, he's so tough he slapped everyone minus the leather glove. Green is also old, ugly, weak, hence completely unbelievable as any heart throb or rising gangster. He is very clever tho having dropped out of school so in each scene they can Hes clutching a book. It's a bit like joey from friends delivering a line.. Only everyone is joey, the acting and dialog gets worse while val Kilmer gets fatter.

Danny Greene's life story seems tailor-made for Hollywood. But ultimately the movie proves less compelling than the man. Kill the Irishman brings Greene's story to the screen but does so in rather mundane fashion. Chock-full of mob movie clichés there's not enough here to make this movie stand out from the pack. The movie is overflowing with violence, shootings and bombings galore, yet still seems to lack in energy. An explosive start promises great things but things soon fizzle out. Danny Greene leads a very interesting life but the movie really doesn't capture that. The story as presented here is actually somewhat dull and clearly disappointing.Danny Greene may be the hero of the film but make no mistake he's not a good guy. He's mixed up in all sorts of nefarious activity as he rises from lowly Cleveland dock worker to union president to full-fledged mobster. Cleveland's Italian mafia kingpins have no patience for this Irishman who thumbs his nose at them at every opportunity. So eventually they decide they want Danny Greene dead. Easier said than done as he escapes one attempt on his life after another. Cleveland becomes the car-bombing capital of the world as mob war rages. Seems like there should be a lot of excitement here, this should be a movie absolutely crackling with energy. But it's actually a bit of a dud.Ray Stevenson does a decent enough job playing Danny Greene but is not quite charismatic enough. For this movie to work Danny has to be absolutely irresistible, you have to be mesmerized by him. And you're really not. It's Danny's movie, none of the other characters rise above sideshow status. All the clichéd roles are there. There's a wife, a girlfriend, a cop and a bunch of mostly anonymous tough guys. There's also Christopher Walken playing a typical Christopher Walken role. At least his character stands out a bit. The rest of the supposed big-time mobsters disappoint. The Italian bosses actually come across as somewhat pathetic, acting like big-shots as they run their little Cleveland family but needing to call in some real mafia guys from New York to try to clean up their Danny Greene mess. And make no mistake, Danny Greene revels in making a mess. There's seemingly a lot of very good material here but the movie falls flat. It's an interesting story. And there's a nice 1970s period feel to it, the movie looks good. But the movie never really grabs you. This should be edge-of-the-seat stuff. And it is not. The story of Danny Greene is one worth telling. You just wish it was told in better fashion than this.

The first thing that struck me was the absolute expressionlessness in the faces of all the actors. The acting consists of stonefaced men past their middle age delivering lines unconvincingly. Normally, the director will try to enhance the visuals, add effectful sounds, and cut it in such a way as to cover up bad acting. But here, Nick Love seems to be completely uninterested in doing anything else than taking the footage as is and telling the story from beginning to end in the most plain and dull way imaginable.Every scene is dull and unconvincing. And despite a cast that looks good on paper, no scene has any nerve or energy. Even the violence/action scenes are dull and unconvincing. Usually, directors going crazy in this department can at least appeal to that part of the audience.If you're a fan of these actors, you might be let down. I would go get one of the many good movies they've starred in instead. This movie is dead dull.