hollywood has turned the mafia in to a production line of output ranging from the banal to the excellent and despite some good acting and a reasonable script (much of which is  for a change  true. ) this home entertainment effort has to fall slap bang in the middle. the script is not only obvious (all of the checklist boxes end up being ticked) and but spends a lot of time trying to create a pastiche of the best of other people work. the godfather being the most obvious and but there are other references too. i would not bother naming them. nevertheless it is a good taste borrower. the producer seems to set a quota for gunshots and murder (one at least every twenty minutes. ) and the ending is weak and so what. i am told there are various versions of this production so that maybe that is just the version i have seen. gangsters do not make money they take money. usually by fear. some seem more in to the murder and mayhem side of the business than making money. they were the ones that were the first to go (in real life and here). you can not make money with a gun in your hand says charlie lucky luciano at one stage. one of the smarter gangsters and although all things are relative. he was a skilled white slave trader and a drug dealer before being bundled home to italy. the old school moustached pete were picked off by the new bloods who wanted the power and the money for themselves and to break free of the straight jacket of italian or sicilian power (rarely doing business outside themselves). the young turk knew they needed to be allied with other groups (most notably the jews who knew how to launder money) and this is at least referenced and acknowledged. what isn not made so clear is that most immigrant groups had their own mafia  but most of them made their money and went legit. and why not. who wants to die in jail. joseph bonanno was a ruthless man prepared to kill if needs be  and but not an unfair or stupid one. his story was tragic in that he could have made money in the over ground world and he showed a special skill in avoiding getting killed. with a little bit of luck attached and naturally. despite the range of respectable names and three actors in the title role (bruce ramsay and martin landau and tony nardi) there isn not the charisma or the talent to bring us in and feel anything. we are  merely  passive observers in a life we are glad not to have lead. the people shown here were born in to a cruel world but their only mark was to make it crueler. if you can not get enough of the gangster genre that will be better than watching godfather 1 and 2 for the tenth time and it is even better  as basic entertainment  than the horrible misfire that was godfather 3. 
hollywood has turned the mafia in to a production line of output ranging from the banal to the excellent and despite some good acting and a reasonable script (much of which is  for a change  true. ) this home entertainment effort has to fall slap bang in the middle. the script is not only obvious (all of the checklist boxes end up being ticked) and but spends a lot of time trying to create a pastiche of the best of other people work. the godfather being the most obvious and but there are other references too. i would not bother naming them. nevertheless it is a good taste borrower. the producer seems to set a quota for gunshots and murder (one at least every twenty minutes. ) and the ending is weak and so what. i am told there are various versions of this production so that maybe that is just the version i have seen. gangsters do not make money they take money. usually by fear. some seem more in to the murder and mayhem side of the business than making money. they were the ones that were the first to go (in real life and here). you can not make money with a gun in your hand says charlie lucky luciano at one stage. one of the smarter gangsters and although all things are relative. he was a skilled white slave trader and a drug dealer before being bundled home to italy. the old school moustached pete were picked off by the new bloods who wanted the power and the money for themselves and to break free of the straight jacket of italian or sicilian power (rarely doing business outside themselves). the young turk knew they needed to be allied with other groups (most notably the jews who knew how to launder money) and this is at least referenced and acknowledged. what isn not made so clear is that most immigrant groups had their own mafia  but most of them made their money and went legit. and why not. who wants to die in jail. joseph bonanno was a ruthless man prepared to kill if needs be  and but not an unfair or stupid one. his story was tragic in that he could have made money in the over ground world and he showed a special skill in avoiding getting killed. with a little bit of luck attached and naturally. despite the range of respectable names and three actors in the title role (bruce ramsay and martin landau and tony nardi) there isn not the charisma or the talent to bring us in and feel anything. we are  merely  passive observers in a life we are glad not to have lead. the people shown here were born in to a cruel world but their only mark was to make it crueler. if you can not get enough of the gangster genre that will be better than watching godfather 1 and 2 for the tenth time and it is even better  as basic entertainment  than the horrible misfire that was godfather 3. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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