Tony Martone

Tony Martone or The Tony Soprano?

Tony Martone has all the ingredients for a great crime film. It's got hits, bad language, violence, gambling, corrupt cops, all of the main ingridenets for a mob film.

Furthermore, it's got a great soundtrack, with blues music...but somehow, it's missing one ingredient, maybe its picking Tony Martone as the name, but it felt very Soprano feeling to me. The picking of title character name felt like a copy of Tony Soprano. I wonder why they selected Tony Martone for the title and character?

I'm not sure if it was just me but I felt like Tony Martone was trying to be like Tony Soprano. Don't get me wrong the plot and story has nothing to do with each other, i felt that Tony Martone was trying to out due Tony Soprano in terms of being that respected guy, a guy you don't touch. In some sense Tony Soprano as a series had much more comedy in it. Maybe in my mind I was comparing them against each other.

Is this a mob flick? A comedy? A drama? A satire? Who knows?

Still, at least the movie manages to stay interesting for most of it's runtime.

I found Tony Martone to be a modern day mafia saga executed very well with nice appealing locations in this film. I like how it blends modern with older styles when it comes to delivering news by means of newspaper, such clever incorporations of old and new.

You know in ancient Persia, the kings would kill a messenger who brought them news they didn't like. In modern times a sword in the chest might seem a little extreme. But if you look at history the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies.

Ray Amato is the enemy here who invaded Tony Martone's docks, with conflict and importance of invading his space. This movie has bite, bark, violence and more important a story that is watchable and believable.

Awesome movie the cast did exellent and it was directed very well by a joe mcgee i enjoyed this film it was really good great job to the cast and crew and everyone helped make this masterpiece and also rip to joes dad he did the music for the film which theres a tribute to that at the very end .....

Absolutely amazing film!!!!! Definitely watch this, you will not be disappointed! 👏👏👏 This movie was great from beginning to end!

Can't wait to see more from these actors!

Loved the plot being in east providence, what a great story and acting among all actors. I don't normally watch indie films but was recommended by Amazon prime. Highly recommend watching it if you like violence and a mafia conflict story. I came to favor Ray Amato as the villain but I bet most will like Tony Martone. Look for some surprises in the film as well.