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Rating of
2.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 05/18/2019
A ridiculously violent gangster film that clearly wants to be a retread of the Brat Pack western YOUNG GUNS (1988). Its cast is not quite as charismatic as that film was. But they're not half bad either. The cinematography is surprisingly good for what amounts to a trashier version of The Godfather. The action scenes are bloody and exciting. It is kind of silly though that the most notorious names in criminal history are being presented as dashing Robin Hood type characters interested in the pursuit of free enterprise and egalitarianism.
Rating of
2/4
Yojimbo - wrote on 06/05/2012
One of the worst examples of Hollywood's glossy reinvention of historical events, this brat pack version of The Godfather (think Young Tommy Guns) is quite unpleasant in the way it presents violence and crime as glib fashion accessories. It is saved from total failure by a quality cast including Michael Gambon, Anthony Quinn and F. Murray Abraham who act the young cast off the screen.
Rating of
1.5/4
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 03/05/2012
The premise was good since it involved the young mafioso's: Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Frank Costello. A descent cast tries to impress and the soundtrack was not that enthralling. The major failure is the screenplay since it failed to make it interesting. Maybe if it focused on each personality instead of as a whole it could have been more effective. Mobsters could have been one of the better mafia related flicks if it weren't for the poor direction.
Rating of
1/4
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/11/2011
Not to bad of a gangster movie.I always wonder why directors always have to change the way things actually happened.Mad Dog Coll was NOT killed in a mobs boss office.He was tommygunned in a telephone booth & If a mob boss was ever actually dropped out a window-I NEVER heard of it.I Wonder how much else of the stuff that happened in this movie was changed around
