How I Fell in Love with a Gangster

If they wanted to flesh out the story so much, they should have just made it a mini series. The film has serious timing issues and gets tiring after an hour. Acting was good but the screenplay didn't do the actors any favours. The characters often felt one note and not like actual human beings, that exist outside of their relation to Nikos. I usually don't mind breaking the fourth wall for exposition but they really overused it. When it comes to relatioships beetwen characters, they should stick to "show don't tell" in the future...

Definitely a movie to watch. The directing is refreshing combined with great actors and story makes it unique.

Either way it seems long at first, the story of not a typical gangster takes you completely in throughout his life of girlfriends, smuggling, and actions.

Definitely recommended for those who appreciate non-american movies!

Just Wow What A Great performance With A Amazing Directing And A Beautiful Storyline And The Music Was Marvelous In My Opinion It Will Be One Of The Best Movies Of 2022.

Apart from the blatant rip off of an origional gangster movie when they played golden brown it was OK.... I was lost for the first hour then again inbetween. Overall.....OK. .......................................................................

Others have commented on the plot, acting and other aspects of moviemaking, so I'll discuss the backdrop. Much of the movie spans the 1970s through the 1990s in Poland and most of that time, the country was under a Communist government, but you'd hardly know it.

It is true that Poland practiced a slightly softer version of Communism than say, East Germany or the Soviet Union. It is also true that the image of the well functioning Communist state was built on lies, there was plenty of corruption, crime networks existed and there were the illicit rich. Having said that, the state was still all powerful in Communist countries and anyone of any means had to bribe and cajole members of the party and security apparatus to maintain their status. Yet this is hardly shown at all in the movie.

That aside, it's still a good and entertaining, if a times bizarre, flick.