Movie Information
Overall Rank: 20023
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 6
Theatrical Release Date: 06/25/2021
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 08/24/2021
Language: English
Genre: Biography, Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eytan Rockaway
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Sam Worthington, John Magaro, Minka Kelly, David James Elliott, Danny A. Abeckaser
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2.5/4
Lansky - a Scorsese epic on a budget.
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/04/2021
Harvey Keitel plays the legendary gangster Meyer Lansky, who revolutionized organized crime with his knack for numbers and as amusing as it sounds, accounting skill.
He’s easily the best thing about the movie. His narration of his life of crime mixed with his family drama is very interesting. How it concludes is sad and even moving. The recreation of the prohibition period and the 1940s scenes look surprisingly good for the limited budget.
The B-story set in the present day of 1981 where he’s explaining everything to a hack writer (Worthington) and giving him life advice is less interesting. There’s another subplot about the FBI’s surveillance of Lansky over his rumored fortune worth $300M.
Both these subplots tie together eventually by the end. But you wish they kept the …
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