XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Raymond Sierra
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
buiger
I found this to be a rather average movie with a lot of good actors, most of which, due to the limitations of the screenplay where unable to fully develop their potential. Basically, the story is too simple, there are no details, no in-depth characterization, nothing that can get the viewer really involved.A positive surprise was Vin Diesel, with some decent acting, based not only on the size of his biceps. John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper are unfortunately almost completely wasted in this movie. Utilizing them more extensively and exploring their characters would have given the movie much more "weight" and would probably have improved it considerably. All in all, a decent, standard Hollywood product, but nothing more.
firebirdrider1
While all of the actors are on their game in this movie, despite the horrible Brooklyn accent of Malkovich, Andrew Davoli stood out as the suave young son of a mobster. I was not aware of him until I saw this movie. He reminds you of a young Daniel Day Lewis. I think it will only take one break out role for this young man to become a household name. I will have to look for other movies that he has done to see if his charisma holds true.Vin plays a good Vin as always. He is such a likable bad guy in all of his movies and Mr. Pepper holds his own against such heavy weights as Malkovich and Hopper. All total an entertaining movie.
thalb
From the perspective of a 23 year old, this movie is pretty good. Very exciting. I have seen GoodFellas and I think this one is better even though it's quite the copy.This movie is about these untouchable mafia guys that are trying to get something back which every time they get close to it it gets worse and you think they will never get it.I need a minimum of 10 lines for my comment, thats odd. Line 10 here it is. Hm, blank lines don't count. Line 10 again. Wow, this is really frustrating, wen't through all the trouble of creating an account and now this crap.
ccthemovieman-1
This is another of those films I thought was great the first time, so-so on the second. Overall, it got high marks - at least on the first viewing - because it's an entertaining film that doesn't overstay its welcome at 92 minutes.Four young guys get involved in their first Mafia-type adventure. One is asked to do a simple job of picking up a bag of money out west and bringing it back home to Brooklyn. However, troubles ensue big-time when the bag is stolen at the little airport out West. His three friends have to come out and help him get the money back and all kinds of problems develop.There is some black humor in here which helps spice up the film, which then turns very serious about halfway through with a few shocking twists near the end.There are two famous veteran actors in here - Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich - and four young ones who becoming better known these days as well: Seth Green, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper and Andrew Davoli.The only problem I had with the movie is Pepper, who played Roger Maris, the famous baseball player in the film '61." He looks so much like Maris that I can't believe him as anyone else! To us baseball fans, Pepper will always be Maris and nobody else.
