Reviews

At first I was skeptic, after seeing series like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire my expectations to a new TV show were sky-high.

The first look at the cast of this show made me curious, I mean a series with Liev Schreiber, Steven Bauer, Elliott Gould and Jon Voight really sounds good in the first place.

After seeing the first 3 episodes I already knew I'm gonna love it and I wasn't disappointed after I finished the last episode of the first season.

Liev Schreiber's acting in this show is top-notch, and I have to admit I have never been a big fan of him before, but this show made up his reputation to me, he definitely has what it takes to play a leading character. But the one who really stands out is Jon Voight. He is definitely at the top of his game in this show and I was really surprised by his emotional bandwidth.

The show has all ingredients to become a cult classic, it has great cinematography, great acting and writing and the score really caught my attention.

I'm not often writing critics on IMDb, but when i checked the page of this movie I was really surprised that there were so few reviews.

I must confess that I haven't heard anything about this movie before I read that there will be free theater screenings of "Kill the Irishman" in my hometown. As far as i know, the film also had a very limited theater release in the USA, which is a sad thing because this movie was surprisingly good and well-crafted and was one of the best films I've seen in the last months.

The film tells the true story of Danny Greene, a tough irish gangster - and let me tell you, it is definitely a story worth telling.

I guess many of you are informed about the story of Danny Greene, so i won't go further into the story.

The movie features an impressive cast including Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken and many other familiar faces known from other mob movies. Ray Stevenson gives an incredibly good performance as Danny Greene and manages to keep his character really violent, but also likable. This movie could give him a career boost for bigger roles.

The direction and the cinematography are very nice and i'm hoping this movie will enable Jonathan Hensleigh more work soon, because he's definitely a talented craftsman.

In some reviews i read that other people complained that this movie is just a ripoff of Goodfellas. That isn't true. The movie stands well on his own, despite featuring some actors known from Goodfellas, and wasn't that also the case in Shows like The Sopranos? Why complain about that? And last but not least, it IS a true story and who grows sick of seeing good mobster movies? Definitely not me.

When i first heard of "Shutter Island", i was a little bit disappointed because i hoped that Scorsese was going to helm his mob-pic "I Heard You Paint Houses" next. Now i'm really happy he didn't.

Let me say that this is (in my opinion) one of the most terrifying and atmospheric movies i have ever seen. It is so well-crafted it catched my whole attention from the beginning to the end. I will not go into the plot details because i don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't seen the movie already.

I think everyone who watches this movie can feel from the very beginning that there's something wrong with all these characters, especially with Ben Kingsley's character. Most of the viewers expected a plot twist, but the twist of this movie explains so much things I wondered about before and it left me breathless.

Leonardo DiCaprio delivers yet again another excellent performance. Same for Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo. Although there weren't much scenes with Max von Sydow, he played his part really outstanding.

I'm going to watch this movie a second time.