Loved the music and the writer, Mark Hosack, hit every trope and cliche a good pastiche should, adding a few twists of his own. If you like noir action thrillers, you'll enjoy how knowledgeable Hosack is of the genre and how skillfully he plays with it. The actors were all great. Always love Ving Rhames. First time I've seen Thomas Jane. Both definitely delivered. Where's the sequel?? Malone must have a fan base waiting.

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ChrisSherrill

Holy smokes this is awful

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2021

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I couldn't get past the fifteen minute mark. This is one crappy movie, emphasis on crappy. Nothing is good, but the acting is beyond bad. Skip this one and do something with that 90 minutes. You're welcome.

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lou scrobogna

Give 'Em Hell Malone on Blu Ray

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2010

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I first saw Give 'Em Hell Malone on Standard DVD & than again on Blu Ray with a Clearer picture & Sound with Thomas Jane playing the part as Malone a private detective with a reputation for being tough , so tought can't be killed sent to retrieve a briefcase from a seedy hotel and walks right into a trap set by the city's corrupt & most notorious crime boss with bullets flying fists & blood as he fights Boulder(Ving Rhames) and an army of gangsters to protect the briefcase contents and a bombshell client who's more trouble than shes worth (Elsa Pataky)with action and a touch of dark humor and at the end says to be continued so theres goin to be a sequel in the near future as for the movie three and a half out of five , I picked it up for a good price and probably still can so value for money four out of five , not a bad show .

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Bruce Winning

getting shot is alright if you're still alive

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021

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2.35:1/5.1 I like surroundsound. I like the action and violence. I like the fast automobile scenes. I like the shooting. I like the use of weapons like knives and swords. I like the punching and kicking. I like the assault by fire. I want to watch this sort of entertainment on my television.

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I hate it when a movie is to be continued with little chance of that actually happening.

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2010

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Don't misunderstand my title, aside from the last 30 seconds, this film is fairly self-contained. I just thought it really dumb to end it as if there will be more to the story, knowing that such likelihood isn't very high, especially for this type of production; it's hardly a major franchise. If there is a sequel, I fear it'll be recast to account for an even lower budget and might not even be worth watching, as this film itself has some serious storytelling flaws. If not for the cast, I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought. But it's got some familiar faces; some of whom I'm somewhat of a fan.

The action and script can be a lot of fun. The visual style might have been too, if a little more went into it. As is it looks like they were shooting for the kind of stark visuals of Sin City, but didn't have the budget or vision, leaving the look somewhere in between daring and mundane. I enjoyed the films dialogue, but the actual storytelling isn't very clear, despite it being a fairly meat and potatoes noir. The editing is a bit jumpy as well.

I sincerely hope the film does do well enough on disc to at least tempt Jane back for a hopefully bigger budget sequel. But without a sequel already in motion, the ending should have been left on the cutting room floor. It was unnecessary and without a follow-up, cheapens the film.

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D McClellan

Great Movie

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2020

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Great movie, but I think the star should have had more screen time. After all, it was one of the coolest Buicks on the screen!!!

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Mitchell

Gave it the scouts try; and shouldn't have.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021

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This is without a doubt the worst "hardboiled detective" movie I have ever watched. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this film at all. Please do not watch it.

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Domenick Cama

A Grand Send Up of he Hard Boiled Detective Story. A Fun Gas.

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2021

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Entertaining play on 40/50s noir detective movies. Everything reviewers say about this movie is true and that's why is works so well. A far cry from the director's other movie, The Lost Battalion, which is cinema verite and opposite in style. So we know the director, Mulcahy, planned this movie in this manner and within that framework, it is brilliant. Fun, hard parody.

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bla

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018

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Good movie for Thomas Jane fans, pretty similar to Sin city

Herbert Grießhammer

Bleibt wohl Geheimtipp...

Reviewed in Germany on April 17, 2016

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...wegen der vielen negativen Rezensionen, mir auch recht, aber wunderlich ist das schon.
"Give ém Hell Malone" ist ein reinblütiger und herrlich überdrehter Schwarze-Serie-Krimi, der dieses altehrwürdige Genre mit einem einzigen Feuerwerk - und Mann, was wird hier geballert und abgefackelt! - wiederauferstehen lässt. Nur eben in jeder Hinsicht auf die Spitze getrieben, aber das so gekonnt, das die Balance zwischen Lakonie, Brutalität, Melancholie und subtil-knisternder Erotik perfekt gewahrt wird.
Die Schießereien sind schlichtweg atemberaubend und kommen immer im rechten Moment, die Figuren brauchen hier keine Tiefe, sondern erfüllen zum Schmunzeln schön die erwartbaren Klischees (Femme fatale, hartgesottener Detektiv, brutale Gangster, psychopathische Killer, usw.), die Optik ist so gelungen, dass man fast aus jeder Szene Standfotos festhalten möchte; das Fahrzeug von Malone - mein Gott, wo haben sie das bloß hergeholt? Es ist einfach göttlch wuchtig, voll Vierzgerjahre und wird ordentlich reißerisch in Szene gesetzt.
Die Macher schafften es auch, eine gehörige Dosis Humor in Figuren und Handlung zu packen: z.B. die mehrmals Bulletts aus dem missratenen Sohn - Malone - herausoperierende Mutter im Altenheim, oder eine Totenshow in einem Theater, von der durchgeknallten Killerin als künstlerische Performance inszeniert.
Bilder, Musik, Stimmung, Spannung, Schockelemente, alles zusammen ergibt ein nonstop unterhaltsames Kinojuwel, dem man die liebevolle Kleinstarbeit in Gestaltung und Abstimmung aller kreativen Anteile ansieht. Leider, leider gibt es zu all diesem Aufwand kein einziges Extra.
Ich empfehle übrigens dringend den Originalton. Streetslang, bildhafte Ausdrücke, Spracheigenheiten, wie soll das denn im Deutschen rübergebracht werden?

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Noëlle

Une tentative de film noir

Reviewed in France on June 2, 2011

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Le film s'inspire de Raymond Chandler et des films noirs, mais des outrances de violence nuisent à son récit. Thomas Jane sauve le film, il est parfait en Malone-Marlow, et il démontre une fois encore son grand talent que des comparaisons entre ses différents films mettent parfaitement en évidence.Il est aussi très beau et a su se doter d'un physique puissant et splendide qu'il sait mettre au service de ses rôles.

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Reviewed in Germany on March 3, 2024

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ringerfiona1900

Give Em Hell Malone

Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2015

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We really enjoyed this film, it has an old & new feel about it, like 1940s detective dialog ect.. and yet modern, a fun film with story, weird charactures... Donnie Yens ( martail artist) sister is in this film, she is a vilian, great fun performance

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