Silent Partners

Great time travel back to the roaring 1980s, based on a real insurance scam that I became aware of 20 years ago. Hard money lending gone horribly wrong! Lending money becomes an insured interest that survives to this day (Just googled it, Florida lenders still can request the borrower to buy life insurance and name them as the beneficiaries, which could cause potential crime risks if you think about it carefully. As a CPA and insurance agent, I love chewing on this story. Do you?

Cool story, really great and rare cars, a '66 Riviera Gran Sport, come on!!! I especially love the cigar bar scene with the football reference conversation! Highly recommend you guys to check this out!

Silent Partners is the second Ciro Dapagio/Jokes Yanes collaboration I have really enjoyed (the first being 2023's MobKing). The theme is familiar to those who have watched documentaries and feature films like Cocaine Cowboys, Blow, Scarface, and other ones centered on the Drug Cartel's hold on 1980s Miami.

The story centers on a hitman's (Dapagio) role in life insurance fraud that pays dividends, especially when the Mafia's victims turn up and turn up, they do. Steve Russo is great here as the newly released mob boss. Russo wants in on the insurance scam and everything else Russo believes he is entitled to after not saying anything during his decade behind bars. Dapagio must navigate around undercover COPS, a bookie (well-played by Antoni Corone) with a knack for writing up insurance policies, and alliances within the Mob.

Silent Partners is taut and comes in at less than 90 minutes. The pacing is far better than most crime dramas.

This fast paced gritty film with twists that will keep you coming back for more...Clever plot based on 1980s Miami true tale, that rivals some of the best Mob films out there today. It's stellar cast Ciro Dapagio, James Russo, Garry Pastore, Ronnie Marmo, Mik,e Marino, Joseph D'nofrio, Nick Vallelonga, Sonny Grosso, and so many others is the icing on the cake..This is no flash in the pan cheesey Mob film its got real chops as they say! Plot that includes and Insurance scam that is just brilliant. You have to love the energy and the clever dialogue it brings with some laughs as well...Silent Partners brings it all to the screen and Ciro Dapagio's talent and finesse and realistic grasp of this genre is the Cherry on the proverbial Sundae..A ride you won't want to stop! Stream it, rent it, buy it ...NOW.

Marino absolutely stole the show-his acting really impressed me! Some parts felt like older footage mixed with new, but I could be wrong. I really liked the ending: "you said you liked gangsters." I know several people involved in this project, and I appreciated everyone's work. The lighting wasn't great, but for a lower-budget film, it held up well. I loved the Miami vibe, the music, the background, and the cars-definitely better than Mob King. Producing a film takes real heart, vision, and grit, and Ciro clearly has all three. I'm confident his future projects will keep getting stronger. I give it six stars.

An epic mixture of betrayal, intrigue, intensity, violence, moblife, Miami and incredible acting, sharp directing and flawless editing invites the viewer on a time travel back to Miami (circa 1980's) and it's absolutely worth the trip. Charlie Valentine has had enough of playing by other's rules and betrayals. It's time to turn the tables and make that life changing score.

Silent Partners opens up with an amusing banter back and forth between Valentine and Max (played perfectly by Lou Silver). It's the beginning of a slow climb upward of a roller coaster that takes us on an exciting, intense ride that ends.............

Strap yourselves in good. It's a helluva ride and well worth the price of the ticket.