Give 'em Hell, Malone main backdrop
Give 'em Hell, Malone main poster

Give 'em Hell, Malone

Visit website

5.7/10 • 123

2009-01-041h 36m

CrimeActionThriller

Hard to love... Harder to kill.

A tough as nails private investigator (Malone) squares off with gangsters and their thugs to protect a valuable secret. Malone goes through hell to protect the information but he dishes some hell as well...

Directors
Russell Mulcahy
Editors
Robert A. Ferretti

Top Billed Cast

View Credits
  1. Thomas Jane

    Thomas Jane

    Malone

  2. Ving Rhames

    Ving Rhames

    Boulder

  3. Elsa Pataky

    Elsa Pataky

    Evelyn

  4. Doug Hutchison

    Doug Hutchison

    Matchstick

  5. Leland Orser

    Leland Orser

    Murphy

  6. French Stewart

    French Stewart

    Frankie the Crooner

  7. Gregory Harrison

    Gregory Harrison

    Whitmore

  8. Eileen Ryan

    Eileen Ryan

    Gloria

  9. David Andriole

    David Andriole

    Pencil Stache

Reviews1

View Reviews
Per Gunnar Jonsson Avatar

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Sep 23, 2014

7/10

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.

Media

  • Give 'em Hell, Malone poster
  • Give 'em Hell, Malone poster
  • Give 'em Hell, Malone poster
  • Give 'em Hell, Malone poster

Recommendations

  • Assault on Precinct 13 main backdrop

    Assault on Precinct 13

    6.2

  • Berlin Syndrome main backdrop

    Berlin Syndrome

    6.0

  • Grandma's Boy main backdrop

    Grandma's Boy

    6.5

  • The Clean Up Crew main backdrop

    The Clean Up Crew

    5.4

  • Dreamcatcher main backdrop

    Dreamcatcher

    5.6

  • Defiance main backdrop

    Defiance

    6.8

  • Changeling main backdrop

    Changeling

    7.6

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift main backdrop

    The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

    6.5

  • Crazy, Stupid, Love. main backdrop

    Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    7.3

  • Parasite main backdrop

    Parasite

    8.5

  • Rear Window main backdrop

    Rear Window

    8.4

  • Marriage Story main backdrop

    Marriage Story

    7.7

  • 12 Angry Men main backdrop

    12 Angry Men

    8.5

  • Back to the Future main backdrop

    Back to the Future

    8.3

  • Shaun of the Dead main backdrop

    Shaun of the Dead

    7.5

  • The Shawshank Redemption main backdrop

    The Shawshank Redemption

    8.7

  • Psycho main backdrop

    Psycho

    8.4

  • Fight Club main backdrop

    Fight Club

    8.4

  • Joker main backdrop

    Joker

    8.1

  • Home Alone main backdrop

    Home Alone

    7.4

Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$15,000,000.00
Revenue
--
Keywords
shootouthoodlum