ThatMOVIENut A fictionalization of the early days of four major mafia figures, 'Mobsters' follows the young Luciano (Christian Slater), Lansky (Patrick Dempsey), Siegel (Richard Greico) and Costello (Costas Mandylor) as they rise from street punks to gangster powerhouses. How so? By playing back and forth between the two big dons of the time, Faranzano (Michael Gambon) and Masseria (Anthony Quinn), whom Luciano has a personal vendetta against too.One of the dullest mob movies I have ever seen, this Mafioso spin on the Young Guns formula is flat and generic. Despite the solid production values, the direction by commercials veteran Michael Karbelnikoff is so bland and televisual that a lot of the mood and atmosphere is nonexistent (not helped by the strange use of blackouts every twenty minutes, like the movie is going to an ad break). This could be forgiven if the story had meat, but instead, the characters are every flavour of tired 'mob' tropes, and the narrative is paper-thin and clumsily constructed. The movie by turns wants to be a revenge story (which only matters during the opening and end), a romance (which is also very haphazardly chucked in), a battle of wits, an action film, a buddy movie and even to an extent, a recreation of history (which here, talk about a total whitewash of gangsters and their lives) and does none of them well.The fact that the film is such a huge dud is a pity, as the cast do try and bring some life in, whether its our young foursome as the main charismatic hoods, or even the more ebullient Gambon and Quinn as the Dons. Plus, as I said, the film isn't cheap or ugly looking, and Michael Small's score does do a good job of bringing in that jazzy 1930s flavour.But that's all the film has going for it. When you have writing this bland and sloppy, you render any investment nonexistent, and I could not wait for this thing to be over. I wanted to give this a chance, I wanted it to surprise, but like Nispel's promising but disastrous 'Pathfinder' before it, this was just bad.

brylav88 I won't give a synopsis, since you've probably already read one, just a straight out review. This movie got a very low rating, but it is NOT a low movie. I really enjoyed this movie, but I'm also very into the mob and old time gangsters, I gave it a 7 because it's a fair compromise between my personal rating and the movies ratings on the whole. If you like mobster movies, and in particular are interested in Charlie Luciano and Meyer Lansky, then you'll enjoy this movie. Very few movies, if only a couple, have been made about Charlie "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, but this one gives a MOSTLY historically accurate portrayal of the 2 gangsters and their rise to the top. Hope you liked the review, its actually my first despite the amount of time I spend on this website.

Robert J. Maxwell It's New York in the 20s. The men exemplify sartorial splendor and the women are buffed. The photography has a burnished glow to it. The men are all Italians or Jews and they sit around a big table and proffer business deals. They gesture a good deal, running off at the hands. They greet one another operatically, with big smiles and hugs, and statements like, "'Ey, you lookin' good. It's been too long." They're all loving friends except that behind each others' backs they scheme like nobody's business (or "bidness") to kill one another. Then they break out the .45 caliber choppers and God help the Capo sitting at his table slurping down rigatoni and that glass of robust red vino. He's going to wind up with heartburn.I kind of enjoy movies like this, about big-name mobsters with names like Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano and Mad Dog Coll and Meyer Lansky. I thrill at the way the writers slightly bend the story so that we sympathize with, in this instance, Christian Slater as Luciano. He's the central figure -- and he's basically a VIRTUOUS MAN. He never kills anybody unless there's a very good reason for it. And the better the reason, the more bloody and barbarous the slaughter is. He catches Mad Dog Coll unawares and empties his Tommy Gun into the squirming body. The explosion of so many squib charges has never before been committed to celluloid. You remember how Sonny Corleone, James Caan, gets shot up at the turnpike entrance in "The Godfather"? That was nothing compared to what happens to Mad Dog Coll.My understanding is that our real, contemporaneous mobsters sit around enjoying these movies and chuckling over them, wondering, only half dreamily, who's going to play THEM in the next Mafia movie.The fact is, though, that this isn't very original. Roger Corman did it just as well twenty or thirty years earlier, on a lesser budget, and with tongue in cheek. This film tries desperately to be a serious look at what long ago became a joke. The sources that have been ripped off are not only gangster movies, beginning with "Little Caesar" and meandering through The Godfathers and Goodfellas, picking a bit here and a shtick there, but hard-core pornography. There are just enough plot points established -- who's bedding whom, who has a grudge against whom, and how about that tentative meeting between rivals -- to justify the more interesting scenes, the ones everyone is waiting for, sex in pornography, stupendous violence in "Mobsters." You haven't lived until you see a scarlet pool of gore spilling viscously across the tiled floor of a steam bath.Frankly, I'm getting a little jaded. I don't care if these moral morons protected their wives, loved their girl friends, went to the opera, enjoyed rugala, disliked fluorescent light bulbs, wanted to save the pandas, or had a magnificent stamp collection. It's the one percent of the time when they are putting a bullet through someone's forehead that bothers me. Showing us their human side amounts to a sort of apologia. You know -- I'm fundamentally decent. I just have this piacular quirk.They don't deserve this favorable propaganda. They deserve long jail terms, but then a lot of people belong in jail who are now sailing on Long Island Sound.

kearanocallaghan 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.