Thomas Jane

Ving Rhames

Elsa Pataky

Doug Hutchison

Leland Orser

French Stewart

Gregory Harrison

Eileen Ryan

David Andriole

Chris Yen

Patrick Treadway

Armand Jalayeri

Brandon O'Neill

Gretchen Oyster

Russell Mulcahy

Mark Hosack

Dane Farwell

Erika Anderson

Johnny Martin

Brian Oliver

Richard Rionda Del Castro

Richard Salvatore

Jonathan Hall

Robert A. Ferretti

Vincent DeFelice

Casey Sargent

Laurie Hicks

Lisa Caryl-Vukas

Mike Meyers

Trista Jordan

Emily Chisholm

Amy Bruscoe

Heidi Habib

Gonzalo 'Bino' Espinoza

Geronimo Mercado

Sean Gray

Ben Zarai

Mike Pipgras

Matt Kunau

Josh Hakian

J.D. McKee

Gregg Smrz

Mark L. Anderson

Brian Cox

Peter N. Green

Kim Guthrie

T.J. Williams Jr.

Pete Moroz

Mike Vukas

Mark James Watson

Alayna Caryl

Mike Kjolso

Rhona Rubio

Julie Adams

Bryce Woodworth

David C. Williams

Taci Van Leuven

David Barber

Crime

Action

Thriller

Give 'em Hell, Malone

Martini Films

North by Northwest Entertainment

Hannibal Pictures

United States of America

Per Gunnar Jonsson

This movie is kind of difficult to rate. In one sense it is the kind of hardboiled private investigator taking no shit and dishing out his own kind of justice that I like. However it is also, at times, a really silly movie with rather a silly script and a main character that takes a ludicrous amount of beating and still pops up and kicks ass.

In the end I decided that I did indeed like this movie. I liked its rather “noir” atmosphere and the fact that the character indeed is tough as nails and kicks some serious ass. There is plenty of action in the movie and it is quite violent and sometimes a bit silly but it fits the movie and I think this particular movie would be less to my liking without it.

There are some interesting bad guys in the movie as well. There are of course the basic thugs which are disposed of rather quickly but there is the lollypop girl which is adding a bit of flavor, there is the big black guy which is really not so much a bad guy but a worthy adversary of Malone and then there is the totally whacko pyromaniac, Matchstick. This guy is insanely scary. I quite liked him, not as a person of course but as an element of the movie.

The story is sometimes as whacko as some of the characters in the movie so do not expect a good mystery or even a coherent story out of this movie. Sure it has a red thread going through it and there is an explanation at the end but sometimes what the characters do and how we get from start to finish seems rather ad-hoc to me. Still, the overall wackiness of all the various elements of this movie combines to something that I did indeed like.

The end was a wee bit disappointing though. Sometimes, when watching a movie, it is clear that there was an intention to produce a sequel but end a feature movie with a “To be continued…” text is really stupid unless you already have a signed contract for the sequel. Luckily the actual story is brought to a good enough conclusion and it is just a few of Malone’s personal loose ends left at the end of the movie.

English

Give 'Em Hell Malone (DVD & Blu-ray)