Goat

I had seen this title a few times and finally figured I'd give it a try. I mean after all it's a movie about Brooklyn and Ice T is in it. I couldn't get through more than a few minutes before turning it off & throwing it away. So if you're looking for a review on the story, I didn't see it. But for what I did see, it looked bad.

This could very well be one of the worst movies ever made. Horrible writing, dialogue, and acting. I can't imagine what the producers were thinking when they made this film. Can't believe I even finished it.

Wow! After watching William Seinwels aka DiMeo's nose cover the screen in Gravesend, I stumbled upon this horrible film. Basically, it combines poor writing, poor directing, good cinematography, and lots of bad acting. Copy cat themes seem to run throughout the film without any cohesive storyline. Armand Assante and Kathy Moriarity do their best , but come off as bad as the rest of the amateur cast. Seinwels leads the way with another poor acting job. Seems he's the same in every film. His raspy inarticulate delivery combined with his beating up people and scoring chicks is his MO. Good locations and camera work help, but this one is beyond help. Please stop making mob movies. The genre is finished.

I began watching this movie (but could NOT finish it) because of the title and some of the cast. Some. The others I had no idea who they are, still don't.

This movie is told mainly by a macho voice over. The male lead is an over the top (WAY over) macho guy. He's sadly laughable.

The opening scene is in a cemetery which for tells how bad the makeup is going to be. It's laughable. Again, sadly, everyone looks as if they were made up by a mortician's assistant - who's going to be fired on Friday. And you get to see a lot of it because this director loves his close ups. Close ups of faces and boobs. Yep. A classy movie. Not.

And the music is loud. Not good and and loud. Just loud.

This is one of those movies that has some excellent actors in it - why they attached themselves to this project, I have no idea. I'm just glad I cut my losses.

Now that I think about it, 2 stars are too many. Going down to one.

As always - make your own decision, but this is soooooooo bad.

Having grown up in Bensonhurst Brooklyn during the 1960s, sad to say that the characters are true to life. This is one of the few movies that captures the argumentative and violence-prone nature of that neighborhood at that time. Goodfellas is another that captured that horrible milieu.

As a youth, every disagreement among the goombahs on my block led to threatened violence, typically settled by the oldest goombah, who was also the toughest fighter. When I reached the conclusion that I was smarter then my "friends" and stopped hanging with them, eventually they sent another tough guy from up the block to beat me up. (It was a stand-off, ended when an older neighbor intervened.)

The mob keeps order by threatened or actual violence, including murder. I know of a guy from the neighborhood who served years in prison for not ratting out the source of drugs he inadvertently sold to a DEA agent. When he was released from prison, he started drinking heavily. One night he walked out of a bar at 2 am and saw a mob boss's son murder someone on the street. Shortly thereafter this guy was kidnapped, shot through the eyes and dumped in the trunk of a stolen car. So don't claim this movie is too meoodramatic or over-acted; it isn't.

And I would be remiss not to mention Joe Colombo, boss of the Colombo "famiily" and one of the founders of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, an organization founded to deny the existence of the Cosa Nostra aka Mafia. On June 28, 1971, Colombo was shot three times in the head and neck by Jerome A. Johnson, with one of the bullets hitting him in the head, at the second Italian Unity Day rally in Columbus Circle sponsored by the Italian-American Civil Rights League. Was that too melodramatic or over-acted? It actually happened.