Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Cristal
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Alice C
Where to begin. The main character who appears to be in his 30s was raised wealthy in London, doesn't have a Russian accent and went to best schools including Harvard but later they keep saying the family left Russia 15 years ago. Doesn't really compute along with much of the rest of the story. His 'loving' uncle hurts his business purposesly with rumors so he'll have to let a criminal element into his investment fund. Which even though they try to present him as a man of impeccable character he quickly agrees by buying into the title McMafia idea of we'll go outperform the Russian syndicate that killed your traitor uncle by having a bigger presence (for revenge purposes). And after the first pushback which obviously would be coming when the Russian syndicate figured out what was going on the guy he sold out to basically folds like a cheap suit and gives up. Huh?! Meanwhile the show turns to soap opera drama about his washed up father having an affair, a pregnancy with the mistress, the pretense of drama about his fiancé learning he is not exactly legit. The fiance also gets shot and spends weeks in the hospital with no visible wound or need to be there. There is a lot of crying, suicide attempts and screaming, we see his father feeding ducks about as much as the toy Star Ship Enterprise flew pointlessly around the original Star Trek and more crying. I think about every character gets their shot at crying at least once. The storyline literally barely advances each episode. Not a very good show. They should have focused on an actual crime syndicate war and had characters you cared about like in the Sopranos. This does none of that. Just kill the main guy and end this sad saga.
jbarrington-1
It might have been a decent series, but my wife and I grew tired of constantly reading subtitles. Some subtitle within a series or movie is okay at times, but every episode is loaded with them. If I wanted to read, I'd get a book.
Gaggletim
Love a good gangster series and McMafia doesn't disappoint. Great cast great writing and no expense spared for the production which goest from Moscow, London, India UAE and France.
quarterwavevertical
I started watching the show because I saw the ads for it on AMC.After watching the third episode earlier this evening, I've determined that it's rather bland and unoriginal. The story of a crime family living in a different country was done with "The Godfather" movies. A member of that crime family going straight? That's not new, either (e. g., the character of Meadow Soprano). How about crime families trying to undermine each other? Again, that was done in "The Sopranos" and, to a certain extent, in "Breaking Bad".I'm sure that many of the same themes were already used during the time when the genre of film noir was popular.I'll probably continue watching but "McMafia" is hardly a series that I'd be willing to see more than once.
