De principio a fin, es una historia de amistad entre cuatro hombres callejeros a los que no les importa usar la violencia para lograr la vida que desean. No confían en nadie más que en los d... Leer todoDe principio a fin, es una historia de amistad entre cuatro hombres callejeros a los que no les importa usar la violencia para lograr la vida que desean. No confían en nadie más que en los demás, lo cual es vital para su éxito.De principio a fin, es una historia de amistad entre cuatro hombres callejeros a los que no les importa usar la violencia para lograr la vida que desean. No confían en nadie más que en los demás, lo cual es vital para su éxito.
- Premios
- 2 nominaciones en total
- Another Italian
- (as Sean Blackman)
Argumento
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- TriviaIn real-life, Anthony Quinn was a close personal friend of gangster Frank Costello after the mob boss retired and until Costello's death.
- ErroresBen Siegel is frequently called Bugsy to his face and even refers to himself as Bugsy. In real life Siegel hated his nickname and would not tolerate anyone calling him Bugsy.
- Citas
Bugsy: [to "No-Nose Tony" and the other Faranzano mobsters who've been jumping Rothstein's bootleg-shipments] ... Try this again and I will kill your mothers, fuck your sisters, and turn your brothers into eunuchs!
Lucky: I think you've made your point, Benny. Let's go.
Meyer Lansky: [Then, after Bugsy guns down No-Nose] ... You wanna start a war?
Bugsy: I don't mind.
Meyer Lansky: Well, I do. Sometimes you're so stupid I can't stand it.
- Versiones alternativasWas heavily cut to secure an M rating for its Summer 92 Australian theatrical run. The cuts were later restored for its R rated VHS release.
I've been reading a lot of comments stating that this movie can't hold a candle anywhere near Goodfellas or Godfather or even Donnie Brasco (all of which are excellent movies). Well, all I have to say is, NO, REALLY?!? I mean come on, with a cast like Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey and Richard Grieco, what were you expecting? Another Vito Corleone or Lefty Luggiero? This one is aimed at a younger audience (perhaps teens to mid twenties) and I have to admit, they pull it off rather nicely. What I mean is that the movie, though serious throughout, does not try to be an epic, only a high octane crowd pleaser. The action scenes are bloody and well done, and the sets are lovely. Even the acting is surprisingly good, especially Patrick Dempsey and dare I say, Richard '21 Jump Street' Grieco.
What kills me about this flick is that, though it is an exciting movie and a more than anything else, an effective time killer, the direction cuts from scene to scene getting straight to the point and little else. This seriously detracts from characterization and overall storytelling (I totally agree with other viewers who said that this movie should be at least an hour longer). I mean, at the beginning, we are vaguely introduced to our protagonists, and then five minutes later, they are in their twenties, and have already established themselves as small time crooks. How? Movies like Goodfellas and Once Upon a Time in America are great movies partly b\c they had wonderful scenes of the main characters as children, so we can see their motives when they eventually become mobsters.
This one, like I said, jumps from one scene to another, not wasting a second on dramatic pauses or even characterization. It seriously reminds you of a cookie-cutter Jerry Bruckheimer production, minus the explosions. It does have nice touches here and there of authentic 1920-1930's life and old movies depicting that era which gives the film class (the tunes, the model-T's, the dancers, the neighborhoods and finally, the spinning newspaper headlines) instead of just being another Young Guns meets the Goodfellas. However, as I said, the film's objective, to make a fast paced mafia movie with popular actors suceeds, but it also leads to its biggest downfall of limited characterization. It is hard to feel for (or despise) characters without knowing their background all too well...all we get is, hey Lucky had a hard life, Benny likes to kill people, Don Massaria is fat, the other Don is a bad fella...anyway you catch my drift.
All in all, not a bad film, though it should have been longer. Watch this one only when it's on cable or when you have time to kill, for it is rather visually pleasing and entertaining. Overall, it is a movie that doesn't pretend to be something it's not, it's a decent film with a lot of action and good performances. I give it 7/10 stars.
- boondocksaint20
- 5 nov 2002
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- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Mobsters
- Locaciones de filmación
- Max Busch House - 160 S San Rafael Avenue, Pasadena, California, Estados Unidos(Luciano's mansion; interior, burned down on October 5, 2005)
- Productora
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- USD 23,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 20,246,790
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 6,030,585
- 28 jul 1991
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 20,246,790