I should have read some reviews before I bought htis movie. I am a BIG fan of all mob movies. When I was watching htis movie I could not help but laugh because it was so damn fake. When it comes to my mob movies, I like real stuff. I would have been ok with this movie if they did not use the names of Capone & Dillinger. The actors were not bad, the movie was not bad but damn they need to change the title. They are just distroying the great names of Capone & Dillinger with this movie.
A good gangster flic
Although this is a totally fictional story, it is very entertaining. Martin Sheen does (as alwas) a fantastic acting job. The FBI gun down the wrong Dillinger, killing John Dillinger's brother. So John takes it on the lame going straight with a new life, and family. But Al Capone finds out about Dillinger and gets him to pull one more heist. A bank robbery where Capone has his money stashed away. Capone holds Dillinger's wife and son as hostage. I bought this in the bargen bin for about $5. Well worth it.
It's great!
I've never seen it, but I think J.D. Morgan is a great actor
Films about historical events that play fast and loose with the facts usually get under my skin...big time.That aside,I must say that I really enjoyed this film, despite the fact it seemed to get very few of the essential facts right.Ben Johnson was miscast Melvin Purvis as well as Harry Dean Stanton as Homer Van Meter, but both were great as always.Warren Oates is one heck of a character actor and as character actors go,can do no wrong(the man's a genius).The butchering job on the history was done,I assume,to facilitate a smoother narrative and keep the movies length from expanding into epic like proportions.The scene depicting Van Meter's demise was a brilliant piece of black humor(most obviously based on pages 123 and 124 of John Toland's "The Dillinger days")but in actuality the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Warren Oates - Ben Johnson Director(s): John Milius DVD Release Date: Released the 30 July 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Somewhat of an excuse to throw together four hot young actors of the moment in a serious environment, Mobsters nonetheless is a decent treatment of the rise of four of the most infamous gangsters of the 20th century. Christian Slater and Patrick Dempsey play Charlie "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, respectively, best friends since they were kids on the mean streets of New York. When Prohibition hits, these young ambitious hoods--along with Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) make their move to take over the rackets, even as it jeopardizes their friendship. Featuring cameos by Anthony Quinn, Michael Gambon, and F. Murray Abraham, Mobsters is a guilty pleasure if a not too serious one. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christian Slater - Patrick Dempsey Director(s): Michael Karbelnikoff DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Meyer Lansky, along with Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, helped mold organized crime in America into "the Syndicate," a business run as efficiently and ruthlessly as any corporation. Richard Dreyfuss plays Lansky (as do Max Perlich and Ryan Merriman). Starting out with Lansky as an aging, ill, cranky man taking refuge in Israel, the film tells his life in a series of flashbacks, starting out as a young Jewish tough trying to hold his own against Irish gangs in New York. Lansky and his associates climb the ladder of crime over the years, turning Las Vegas from a quiet desert town into a swank gambling hot spot, eliminating any rogue elements or competition that could hurt the cause. Senator Estes Kefauver came along to put a dent in the Mob's activities by the l950s, but Lansky and company... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John McNaughton DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Anthony Quinn stars as a mob boss whose mistress gets killed and starts a bloody mob war.This is a classic must see mob movie!! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard Fleischer DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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The main problem with this movie is the music. They have put loud music on top of the dialogues, so often it is impossible to understand what the actors are saying!!!
The plot is ok, although you do not understand why Giorgio would want to leave the job of Don to Crocefisso, and not take it for himself.
Next it is not really clear why Crocefisso came back from Paris at all. If I understood it correctly, at the beginning of the movie Don Clericuzio only said that he missed him. Not that he wanted him back. But, again the music was covering the dialogues, and so I migh have misunderstood. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Graeme Clifford DVD Release Date: Released the 18 July 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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