But this guy doesn't really have a verified past, and this film smooches with his lies a little too much for comfort. I love a great action film, and I love a good mob film. It's like macho violence worship.Īnd don't get me wrong.
The film walks right over his abuse of his wife, and nearly makes him out to be this great guy in half the scenes. But it's the premise that is a total turn off. I am sure he took part in some hits here and there and killed a bunch of people, but the way this film makes him look like somebody is so ridiculous. Granted it would have taken a long movie to depict all of Kuklinski's killings, but the movie seems to miss entirely his psychopathic nature, i.e. Kuklinski sounded so much like D'Onofrio in the first interview, that it could have been him. Although I liked Michael Shannon's work, when I saw the HBO interviews, the actor I thought of to best play the part was Vincent D'Onofrio. If they had, the person responsible certainly would not have lived long. Nobody ever came to his house to threaten him or ran down his daughter.
In the HBO interviews he tells of killing a man just for making a threat to his family. There is no way that Kuklinski would have been pushed around as depicted in the film, or had his family threatened by Demeo and not taken immediate action.
Kuklinski, by his own admission, started killing at an early age, long before he did it for money, in that he was a stone-cold psychopath, killing anyone who insulted him, dissed him, or otherwise made him angry. I watched the 3 HBO interviews with Richard Kuklinski right before watching this film, so I was extremely disappointed to see that the script gave the usual Hollywood spin to a story, rather than presenting the real story.
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