The Outfit

Poorly made gangster movie about the supposed feud between "Dutch" Schultz and "Legs" Diamond. Silly script, Dreadful dialogue, amateur acting. The production values are not too bad, but it's flat and trite with every imaginable cliche.

I'll give this movie credit. For being a direct to video affair, it comes across like a far more important film. The acting is all over the place. John Mosby is the ladies man, "Legs Diamond", Lance Henriksen the explosive "Dutch Schultz", and Billy Drago plays "Lucky Luciano". The constant battles between "Legs" and "Dutch" are gradually wearing thin with "Lucky". Meanwhile, Martin Kove, is an F.B.I. Agent who infiltrates Diamond's organization. Basically the movie is not much more than one machine gun battle after another, as the two waring factions fight for whiskey running territory. There are a couple trollops thrown into the mix simply to add nudity. Not great, but better than you might expect. - MERK

Awful screenplay and the music was beyond bad. You have to feel really sorry for Lance Henriksen who is a great actor(did a marvelous job as Abraham Lincoln in THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT). The main guy tried too hard to be Clint Eastwood

Waaaaay too much sex and fighting, considering the plot. Feels like the main actor just wanted to have more sex scenes. I just watched this because I like Lance Henriksen, but he's wildly underutilized, and it sounds like they had him shouting himself hoarse with how ill he sounds in some scenes. Also the version available on Tubi is almost TWO HOURS long, which is way too long for so much nothing to be happening. Don't waste your time.

The only other movie I've seen which uses slow downbeat jazz in ALL of the scenes is Bloodmatch 1991. And like this movie, there was slow jazz even in the fight scenes. This movies had more corn than the then illegal whiskey; and went on way... too... long.