I thought about Marty Scorcese's touch, I thought of A BRONX TALE, not only because of the presence of Chazz Palmintieri and also because the White lead has a relationship with a Black gal. There was a good batch of this kind of new wave vintage after all, this is certainly not a premiere, it began actually during the early nineties, just after GOOD FELLAS opened the road. There is a bunch of old timers here, Don Johnson, an overweight William Forsythe, Palmintieri and an agreeable characters symphony, where it is difficult not to feel empathy towards them. Heist is not the center of the movie but an important though and Quentin Tarantino's spirit is not so far either with a tongue in cheek elements which we begin to get used to since several decades now. It is not question of the big mafia, the powerful international mob, but only the petty thugs one, in the SOPRANO manner, and without being a comedy; only some light hearted spirit from time to time. I will finish by saying that THINGS TO DO IN DENVER has certainly inspired the screen writers and director of this feature. More or less same scheme and characters, spirit and atmosphere: a gang of petty gangsters rob the mob and then....
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