the audience applauded

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Absolutely the worst movie.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Three lifelong friends grow up in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood. Carmine Mancuso (Scott Caan) is the vain one. Bobby Canzoneri (Jerry Ferrara) is the cheapskate. Michael Turner (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is the scammer. In 1974, the 3 young boys found a dead body in the woods. Carmine took the lighter, Bobby got the dog, and Michael took the gun. Now in 1985, Michael is studying at Columbia Law and getting close to rich fellow student Ellen (Mena Suvari). Bobby is living at home whose biggest dream is a postal job. Carmine is getting in with wise guy Caesar (Alec Baldwin) who is a captain in the Gambino family.This is not as rich as other NY mafia movies. Director Michael Corrente has created a world of clichés and expected characters. The three guys do a reasonable job. They have a good mix of personalities. Alec Baldwin does a very good wise guy. The story just lacks the needed tension. It feels like a thin simple mobster movie.

Unexpected. Not terrible, but there is some funny cultural terrain in this one at least for me. I found it interesting to hear otherwise normal or mostly normal sounding guys in their early 20s getting pumped about seeing Frank Sinatra. I mean the guys son is 66 years old. That bent the narrative to me. Some people might be critical of the fact that only people who are in proximity to gangster types are ever depicted in modern films about NYC and its environs. There are many other people around but it seems that is not important. Ever. Good acting, and good background details. Life is a bunch of moments strung together by memory and memory is not always accurate. Maybe some people like to romanticize the past. Maybe because the past cannot talk back. I found it interesting but too close to not somehow. Well, what did I think it would be? I would recommend it to hard core fans of gangster films but as a balanced depiction of life in a complex urban area, it fails as it has no Asians, no African Americans, and no Wasps, and no bums anywhere to be seen. Not excellent, but then again, life often isn't excellent either.

So here we have another mobster movie with a great list of great actors. Set in the 80s the costumes have a bit of tasteless gestures and some actually hit the mark with authenticity. The background music works well and so do the neighborhoods throughout the films.I was surprised to see pretty boy Freddie Prinze Jr. in this mobster film. I was so used to the childish films he had paraded around for such a long time to forget he has a narrative tone of acting. He played an honest student trying to do his best to escape the tortures of a rough and tumble Brooklyn neighborhood.Alec Baldwin gives a steadfast approach to the head mobster lifestyle by smacking a few locals around in the beginning. We see what the character assembly is going to produce throughout the film just from the short descriptive narratives.Jerry Ferrera plays the lovable sidekick friend that is conceptually frugal and down on his luck in unemployment. Scott Caan plays the most realistic character because in my most humble opinion, he has played this stereotypical role in every film I have seen him in. It's the Napoleon Bonaparte complex character that gets all the wheeling and dealing early on and gets his kicks from well, kicking people to the ground. It's characters like him in this film that really take it to another level. His acting is superb ,the love is genuine ,and sometimes you feel the scenes were ad libbed. Mena Suvari was an unconvincing student femme. She lofts around throughout the film carefree until the s*** hits the fans and then she turns against Freddy's character. She could have easily been knocked off in the script and nobody would've missed her. While she was entirely necessary to the script and in proving a friendship motif, I didn't enjoy her performance.Overall this movie hits the target. It's not another classic mobster makeover but in it's own way reinvents the story and leaves room for a few other younger actors looking to get their beaks wet in this genre.

This was probably one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. They have Freddie Prince Jr. playing a kid from Brooklyn? Has he ever even been to Brooklyn before he filmed this movie? He tries to put on a Brooklyn accent in one scene but then looses the accent in the next scene. The story line is really limited, and the acting just gets worse as the movie moves along. The whole movie kind of looks like a kid in film school film edit with his own video camera. Alec Baldwin must have owed someone a favor to take that part. There has been some great movies based out of Brooklyn unfortunately this isn't one of them. I'm sure you'll have something better to do with the 2 hours of life than watch this movie.