JASON BUTLER HARNER VS CHRISTOPHER WALKIN MOVIE

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To win your free “Kill the Irishman” movie pass, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. These “Kill the Irishman” movie passes are valid at participating Chicago theaters at the showing of your choice during the film’s run. “Kill the Irishman,” which is the true story of Cleveland-based Irish mobster Danny Greene, also stars Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Paul Sorvino, Tony Darrow, Linda Cardellini, Robert Davi, Fionnula Flanagan, Bob Gunton, Jason Butler Harner, Vinnie Jones, Tony Lo Bianco, Laura Ramsey and Steve Schirripa from writer and director Jonathan Hensleigh. By comparison, Kill the Irishman just doesn’t cut it.CHICAGO – In our latest crime edition of Hookup: Film, we have 10 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes up for grabs to “Kill the Irishman” with Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer! The film opened in Chicago on March 18, 2011. Even more than Mob-specific dramas of the past decade, The Wire elevated the depiction of a city’s shifting criminal hierarchies to new heights of narrative complexity. But the desaturated color palette sadly seems to have infected the storytelling. Shooting style, production and costume design and score all contribute to a serviceable imitation of films from the period. Given that the source material was written by a cop and the two characters are meant to have known each other since childhood, the failure to develop any real conflict between them is perplexing. Walken does his standard icy-eccentric shtick, while Val Kilmermakes a stolid presence as Danny’s half-hearted adversary on the police force. Her replacement ( Laura Ramsay) has even less to do. After their first meeting, they rarely exchange more than a line of dialogue until she exits the movie trailed by three kids who have had zero screen time with their father. The screenplay misses an opportunity in not making more of Greene’s duality - a hardened criminal on one hand and a loving, community-minded family man on the other, seizing his piece of the American dream the only way he knows how.Īs written, Linda Cardellini’s role as Danny’s wife is a thankless bystander. And Douglas Crise’s editing is more efficient than propulsive. The screenplay brings a plodding by-the-numbers approach to what should be a tense crescendo of events as Danny targets his enemies, then loses one trusted associate after another before a contract killer ( Robert Davi) closes in on him. He shows no trace of the glint in his eye that made the actor so memorable as gladiatorial sex machine Titus Pullo in HBO’s addictive historical porn, Rome.Īside from a few flashes of color such as Fionnula Flanagan’s tough old Irish bird, or some unexpected underplaying from D’Onofrio, there’s little to distinguish the material. This would be juicy enough fodder for any fact-based action thriller but Hensleigh shows little evidence of being an actor’s director, which creates a void where his characters ought to be.Ī soulful thug burdened with unfortunate period-appropriate hair, Stevenson is solid but curiously uncharismatic. His fame grew as he survived numerous attempted hits, leading the self-described descendant of Celtic warriors to believe in his own invulnerability.

While the resulting turf war climaxed in 36 bomb blasts ripping through Cleveland during summer 1976, Greene became a Robin Hood-style folk hero, helping poor families and parishes, and even handing out free turkeys to city cops on holidays. When that went sour, he teamed with gangster John Nardi ( Vincent D’Onofrio) to take on the city’s Italian Mafia heavyweights. It focuses on Danny Greene ( Ray Stevenson), the scrappy Irish-American who muscled his way up in the ‘60s from longshoreman to racketeering union leader, then becoming an enforcer for loan shark Shondor Burns ( Christopher Walken). Hensleigh and co-writer Jeremy Walters adapted their screenplay from Cleveland district police chief Rick Porrello’s book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia. 'Willow' Star Christian Slater Talks His Val Kilmer Tribute and the 'Mr.

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