Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Mobsters is a 1991 crime drama film about 4 boys who grow up to be gangsters in 1920-1930 America.The plot of this film is decent I cannot say that it's as good as similar films such as "The Untochables" or "A Bronx Tale" but it is still watchable and plus the fact that it has a good plot.The acting is good as well Michael Gambon plays a right bad bastard in this film and Christian Slater and Costas Mandylor are good as two of the 4 gangsters in this film the acting is top notch.Overall if you like gangster films like "The Untochables" then you will like this because it is based in that same era and has similarity's to it.

Christian Slater stars as Lucky Luciano, a prominent mob figure in the Prohibition Era who rose to power early on as a member of a group of four who did things their own way, and whenever they felt the need to get it done.This film was produced in a way that made Lucky and his friends, including Meyer Lansky (played by Patrick Dempsey) and Bugsy Siegal (Richard Grieco), look like products of their environments. Slater's father was roused by one of the local Dons in his house right in front of his family, along with his mother getting a little "attention" as well. The event stayed with Slater's character throughout his life as he set the old man up for retribution. Although based on actual events, I feel this movie fails in one area in that it glamorizes the era. Prohibition meant no booze and that's where this group first got their start, in supplying illegal liquor to these nightclubs.Although a fan of both lead actors and liking the chemistry between the two, this movie did have its own shortcomings, and I found myself wondering when the movie would be over. It was somewhat disappointing to me, considering I've waited over seventeen years to see this film.5 out of 10 stars!

I'm sorry, I really tried to like this movie but it just was rather pointless.Yes, it's the dramatization of the real-life rise to power of some of the most successful criminals in US history, however, the writers seemed to want to cram as much of their lives into as little time as possible. For instance, in one scene we see Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky in a car that is then shot at by a hit-man. 5-10 minutes later in the film, they are all sitting in a room, talking about this incident with the hit-man...obviously some great deal of time has passed but this was a little confusing at first.Perhaps if they had stretched the movie out another hour or so, they could have built up the characters some more, including the villains. When Christian Slater has his friends throw the don out the window, he says it is revenge for ruining his father. The ruining of his father took oh about 45 seconds of screen-time at the very beginning of the film.I suppose the point is that there was no point to this film. It tried to show the intrigue of the organized crime gangs of the 20's and 30's and it tried to portray the rise of Bugsy Siegel, Lansky, Costello, and Luciano as well as be an action/drama/love story. It came up flat in all areas.Christian Slater...his fake accent was pretty annoying as well. Luciano was born in Sicili and would not have spoken with such an accent anyway.The Godfather, this was not. Goodfellas, this was not. I like movies about the Mafia like anyone else but this was just weak.

Strip the Godfather of all it's dignity, it's justified violence, it's psychological analysis of a dysfunctional family through the criminal occurrences and self-imposed soldier like mentality, it's hollow atmosphere and photography - what you get is Mobsters. The acting, or posing rather, is embarrassing from all the lead actors, Anthony Quinn excluded (or pardoned). To say that the subcultural climate is over the top is pure flattery. The Chicago dialect is so poorly imitated and contain so many gaps, it might have passed for a continuancy error. You end up with some kind of morbid Dick Tracy story that is neither funny nor meaningful.