This Thing of Ours

gzzzzzzz......i note a bit of hostility! alot of time and effort went into this film which should be appreciated in this industry. There is also an abundance of talented people associated with this film. In addition alot of no name talents were given an opportunity to shine and shine they did! Pls. be patient as this sight is being updated for all who took part to be given proper credit.

This film is a joke. Apparently stuffing a bunch of well dressed Italians around a dinner table and having them tell anecdotes and curse a lot was someone's idea of a good mafia movie. All this movie consists of is random arguments, occasional unrealistic violence, laughable acting, and a numbing level of foul talk. "This thing of ours" plays into every possible Italian mafia stereotype, and blatantly attempts to rip off good gangster films like "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather". I would rather watch "Pink Flamingos" again, than watch this failure again. Do not waste your time, life is too short, and this film is simply too bad.

I saw Caan, Pastore and Vincent...and the trailer...and I thought, hey why not give it a chance? So I ordered it on DVD from the US.

I saw it last night, and man what a big disappointment...OK, I know it's a low budget movie - but it's just terrible. I've seen other low budget movies on the mob that are far better. (give "Witness to the Mob" a chance)

This movie tries to ripoff of the BIG greater mafia movies like Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco etc. without getting close... Some scenes are just so "embarrassing" that you don't know if you should laugh or cry. over 5 on IMDb? G's...this movie dosen't deserve anything better then a 3.

Don't buy it, don't rent it...just Forgetaboutit!

//S

This is a Mafia B Movie that is neither bad nor good. Completely middle of the road. It looks like a B movie and sounds like a B movie. There's nothing impressive or good about it, except that it has a lot of great mob movie character actors in it that you may want to see. The writing isn't spectacular, but it passes, except for the jokes which are stupid. There's some wackings in it that are well done enough. But there's really no reason to watch it unless you have nothing to watch and really love these actors, and like to try to watch every mafia movie out there. I watched it while I was doing a stretching and work out routine, but I wouldn't have just sat and watched it on its own. But I don't regret watching it. Thats all I can say about it.

Nice to see the mob genre still alive, this piece of material represents the mid echelon (quality wise) of the "lesser known mob movies".

Filled with typical mob movie actors such as Frank Vincent, and Vincent Pastore, complemented by James Caan, the movie starts of in a typical mob conversation around the table, which is well acted, filmed and directed. The ad lib acting makes it work. The story line is somewhat bold, yet true to facts, since the mafia is now known to operate through cyberspace, but the extend of this heist they're planning make it unrealistic for me. The overall acting has its ups and downs, several ad lib conversations are hilarious in character, and certainly reminiscent of the famous "what do you mean I'm funny" bit by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas", and other scenes and characters are severely overdone, or all out amateuristic and bad. All in all I had a fine time watching this movie, it's certainly worth at least one viewing, since it's certainly NOT the worst mafia movie out there.

Not a must have DVD, but for completionists, such as me.