The bomb wars

Kill the Irishman (2011)

Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is an Irish thug who gets fed up with his crappy job. He decides to take over the union and of course all the dirty business that comes with it. He starts to work with the mafia, but after some money goes missing they end up in a war. He's also an informant for the police and in the brink of getting a divorce. So life is not easy, but Danny is a tough guy and no matter what the mafia tries they just can't kill him. There's a lot of stuff crammed into this one movie and some aspects are left quite superficial as it focuses on blowing things up. And I really mean blowing things up, there's a ridiculous amount of explosions in this movie, more than in your average war movie. The biggest problem with this movie is that it's your basic mafia movie but just replace the Italian mafioso with an Irish one and all the shooting and piano wires with explosives. The thing is that when you watch this movie you know exactly what's going to happen. The small time thugs get big and then they start dying. Making the main character an Irishman, even though he has actually never even been to Ireland, just doesn't bring enough new angle to the old story. Sure the whole bombing wars thing was a fun aspect, but still that didn't help the predictable outcome one bit. So in the end it's just another mafia movie, well made for sure, but leaves absolutely nothing to go home with.
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