Goat

A friend of mine suggested I see this movie. I understood why she did after seeing it. The lead actor blew me away. He had incredible presence. I love the bad boys. Especially ones that can make you root for them. I thought the movie sent a very nice message of what is really important. I will be watching out for William DeMeo. I really enjoyed watching him from the opening scene. The scenes with his father Armand Assante were very good. I felt the compassion they felt for each other. Assante still has what it takes. The scene where he rips into his son towards the end of the movie is breath taking. I thought the movie had enough action for the story told and I felt all the supporting characters were very believable. If you are a fan of this genre. You won't be disappointed. I will be looking out for the future films of this director Paul Borghese.

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.

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.

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.