Bulletproof gangster

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Movie
German title Bulletproof gangster
Original title Kill the Irishman
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Jonathan Hensleigh
script Jonathan Hensleigh
Jeremy Walters
production Tommy Reid
Al Corley
Eugene Musso
Bart Rosenblatt
music Patrick Cassidy
camera Karl Walter Lindenlaub
cut Douglas Crise
occupation

Kill the Irishman is an American low-budget - action - thriller from the year 2011. The film biography of Jonathan Hensleigh is the adaptation of the novel To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by Rick Porrello and shows the life of Danny Greene from 1960 until his murder in 1977.

action

Danny Greene grew up as an Irish orphan in Cleveland , ruled by mafia godfather John T. Scalish . Even though he's bad at school, he knows how to assert himself. His friends are always helpful to him. So he works with them early on in the docks . And after having won the post of union chairman by means that are not entirely legal , he marries beautiful Joan. Life seems to be getting better and better, because not only is the family growing, but his reputation is also increasing and business with the mafia is getting better and better. Unfortunately, journalist Steve Marshay is collecting so much evidence against Danny that he can go to Detective Manditski and have him arrested. But before Danny goes to jail, he makes a deal with the FBI to report on organized crime business at least once a month.

And even though Danny is back in business as a debt collector for a loan shark, he doesn't have much to report to the FBI. However, he has to move to a worse area with his wife, which puts additional strain on the marriage. And while the marriage falls apart, Danny is given the opportunity to gain a foothold in the garbage business if he can beat all free garbage collectors either into the union or out of the business. The only problem for him is when his good friend Mike confronts him and refuses to work for the union. Danny wants to leave Mike alone, but the pressure of the Mafia lets him change his mind and puts a bomb on Mike, so that he freaks out, attacks him and shoots him several times. Danny also shoots back and hits him fatally in the head with the first bullet. Although he was charged for this , he was later released for self-defense .

However, Danny is not only known for his brutal uncompromising behavior, but also for his good-naturedness, which is why he is also referred to by the general population as "Robin Hood of Collinwood" . And since Danny can't work as a racket forever, he wants to open his own restaurant, "The Dublin Public House". So, with the help of Birns, he borrows $ 70,000 from the Gambinos . But unfortunately the money never reaches Danny because the money courier preferred to buy 6 kg of cocaine . And since Danny never received the money, he also refuses to repay it, which is why he continues to demand the 70,000 US dollars from Birns. But he does not see the problem with himself, but with Danny, which is why, after his refusal to pay, he hires a killer and lays a car bomb on Danny. But Danny escapes the attack, takes revenge in the same way on Birns and kills him in the process.

But despite all the problems Danny manages to set up his restaurant, and when things are going really well, the mafia is already at the door and demands 30% of all income from him as protection money. But when he refuses, the mafia tries to kill him several times by throwing a bomb in his house and using a sniper while jogging. But since he survived both attacks, he allies himself with his old friend John Nardi and together they gradually get more and more Mafia members out of the way, so that even the large families in New York doubt the competence of their relatives in Cleveland and send support. Danny has almost no life left, because he is constantly afraid of being killed in an attack, so that he offers the mafia a business. For $ 2 million, he's ready to leave Cleveland forever. But the mafia hires another hit man who monitors him intensely and gradually kills all of his friends before he ambushes Danny. After a visit to the dentist, Danny returns to his car. A bomb is detonated remotely in the adjacent car, killing Greene.

criticism

The film received mostly mixed to good reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted 29 positive out of 47 professional reviews, which corresponds to a value of 62%. The film was also well received by the general public, as 68% of 5,872 users rated the film positively. This in turn is confirmed by the online film archive IMDb , another platform on which normal users can submit their film reviews, because there 11,120 users gave the film an average of 7.1 out of 10 possible points. (As of October 7, 2011)

Jeanette Catsoulis found in an article published in the New York Times that Bulletproof Gangsters had too much Irish pathos and that Danny Greene was shown "like a Celtic Colossus, impervious to bombs, bullets and with harsh words and flattering camera angles." and the film "misses its target".

One could actually expect a film from Danny Greene's life that would be “exciting, crazy and even darkly funny,” said Robert Abele in the national daily Los Angeles Times , but Jonathan Hensleigh shows a film full of “clichés, […] kitsch [and] trivial stories ”.

David Rooney called the film "a prosaic chronicle of an eventful true story" in the Hollywood Reporter magazine that is not limited to "explosive violence, but remains very flat overall".

The lexicon of international films wrote: "A detective film with a biographical background, which does not heroize its protagonist, but gives him the all too honest charisma of a successful businessman."

production

The film cost less than $ 10 million and was shot in Detroit in 7 weeks .

When ex-cop Rick Porrell wrote the book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia , he was constantly thinking about who he would step on their feet with, which is why there was a certain fear in the room, it then publish.

publication

Bulletproof Gangster opened in US cinemas on March 11th, 2011 and since then has grossed US $ 1.1 million. The film was released in Germany on May 26, 2011 directly on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bulletproof Gangster . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 003 V).
  2. ^ Kill the Irishman. rottentomatoes.com, accessed August 5, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Jeanette Catsoulis: Kill the Irishman (2011) on nytimes.com of March 10, 2011 (English), accessed October 7, 2011
  4. ↑ Robert Abele: Movie Review: 'Kill the Irishman' on latimes.com of March 11, 2011 (English), accessed October 7, 2011
  5. ↑ David Rooney: Kill the Irishman: Film Review on hollywoodreporter.com of March 7, 2011 (English), accessed October 7, 2011
  6. ↑ Bulletproof Gangster in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed October 7, 2011 Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  7. ↑ Matt Wheeldon: Kill The Irishman: Interview with Lead Actor Ray Stevenson on goodfilmguide.co.uk, September 23, 2011, accessed October 7, 2011
  8. ↑ Danielle Alberico: KILL THE IRISHMAN - From Reality, to Book, to Script, to Screen on scriptmag.com of March 7, 2011 (English), accessed October 7, 2011
  9. ↑ Kill the Irishman on boxofficemojo.com , accessed October 7, 2011