Rating of
2.5/4
Lansky - a Scorsese epic on a budget.
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/04/21
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 movie in the past since that’s more fascinating.
