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6.1/10 • 134

2025-03-142h 3m

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The most dangerous enemy is an old friend.

Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.

Directors
Barry Levinson
Writters
Nicholas Pileggi
Editors
Nicholas Pileggi, Douglas Crise

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  1. Robert De Niro

    Robert De Niro

    Vito Genovese / Frank Costello

  2. Debra Messing

    Debra Messing

    Bobbie Costello

  3. Cosmo Jarvis

    Cosmo Jarvis

    Vincent Gigante

  4. Kathrine Narducci

    Kathrine Narducci

    Anna Genovese

  5. Michael Rispoli

    Michael Rispoli

    Albert Anastasia

  6. Michael Adler

    Michael Adler

    Senator Tobey

  7. Ed Amatrudo

    Ed Amatrudo

    Rudolph Halley

  8. Joe Bacino

    Joe Bacino

    Joe Profaci

  9. Anthony J. Gallo

    Anthony J. Gallo

    Tommy Lucchese

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CinemaSerf

Mar 26, 2025

6/10

After mob boss Vito (Robert De Niro with loads of facial prosthetics) gets into a scrape with the authorities, he has to flee the USA and leave his childhood friend and business partner Frank (Robert De Niro without augmentation) in charge of things. Many years go by and the latter makes a success of the post prohibition business, avoiding the narcotics industry and keeping the peace amongst the other families that control the boroughs of New York. Then Vito decides he wants to come home and resume his position at the top of the tree, but being quite a loose cannon finds that Frank and just about everyone else isn’t so keen on that proposal. True to form, Vito decides to make his presence felt and things start to become pretty precarious for Frank. That only gets more serious when the Feds and the US Senate decide to conduct a crackdown on the burgeoning drugs trade that Vito is seeing as a future way to make millions of dollars. In the end, Frank is going to have to make some tough decisions. Now, aside from the skills of the make-up artists who have managed to make one De Niro look authentic and the other like someone from a Jim Henson movie, the rest of this is a pretty poorly paced and shallow gangster movie with a great deal of chatting and virtually no action aside from the opening scene and a very messy haircut later on. His solution is, historically, quite quirky but the rest of this is procedural and I thought really rather dull as it bounces us around the timelines of their lives, loves and fairly ruthless business tactics before rushing us through who did what to whom as the story rather fizzles out. It’s all a pretty weak style over substance exercise that sees it’s lacklustre star woodenly going through the motions leading a supporting cast that adds very little to the whole thing as it lumbers along stylishly, but unremarkably. Nobody’s finest work, sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$45,000,000.00
Revenue
$9,037,963.00
Keywords
new york citycrime bossbiographymafiatrue crimeassassination attemptusa history1950s20th century