Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Blistering performances.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A very low budget film shot in and around Little Italy in Manhattan (Mulberry-Hester Streets) when this story about Father Sal really takes place in the Bronx. Dialogue is weak, even in the Italian. The only real facts about this film is that Albert Anastasia DID get his start on the Brooklyn docks and that he WAS murdered in the barber shop. Even their brother Anthony (Tony) who was the dock mob boss is not even identified. Certainly, a let-down.I know the movie came out of the book that Father Sal wrote in Calabria and he wanted to keep all the gory details (and his brother(s)shames) out of it, but there is really nothing left once you pull out the good stuff.