After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
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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.
This film is too ambitious for its own good. There are so many story lines and the film moves in-and-out of them with no apparent rationale. Less would be more. The acting is uniformly good and the film manages to have a "mean streets" feel to it. Any two or three of the story lines (criminal faced with choice, betrayal of friend, family discord, girl tries to make it, family fights mob influences, getting ahead in the mob) would have made this a good film, but all of them is just too much.
This movie was excellent. It had not only intense scenes with tough guys but also some hardships among friends as well as a little romance. It showed a lot about the main characters relationship with his father and also the pressures of coming home from jail and trying to acclamate into the real world. Demeo's performance in this film is truly exceptional.
This movie could have been so much better. It had a decent cast and a good(not great) storyline. It was terribly over acted. Everyone was trying to be so dramatic in a film that was better suited to be an action film. The problem was , there wasn't any action. So a runtime of just under 2hrs felt like 4hrs. It dragged along complicated storylines that overlapped flashbacks & flashfowards. Unsatisfactory ending after a long buildup. It had just enough to keep you from turning it off. But not worth a rewatch.
Do not bother. This is such a bad movie. Paul Borghese and William Demeo cannot act. The script is cliche and copies every mob movie out there.
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- TriviaArmand Assante, Billy's father, played John Gotti in the 1996 HBO movie Gotti. William DeMeo (Billy) went on to portray Sammy Gravano in the 2018 John Travolta "Gotti" film.
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