This Thing of Ours

This is a Mafia B Movie that is neither bad nor good. Completely middle of the road. It looks like a B movie and sounds like a B movie. There's nothing impressive or good about it, except that it has a lot of great mob movie character actors in it that you may want to see. The writing isn't spectacular, but it passes, except for the jokes which are stupid. There's some wackings in it that are well done enough. But there's really no reason to watch it unless you have nothing to watch and really love these actors, and like to try to watch every mafia movie out there. I watched it while I was doing a stretching and work out routine, but I wouldn't have just sat and watched it on its own. But I don't regret watching it. Thats all I can say about it.

This film is a joke. Apparently stuffing a bunch of well dressed Italians around a dinner table and having them tell anecdotes and curse a lot was someone's idea of a good mafia movie. All this movie consists of is random arguments, occasional unrealistic violence, laughable acting, and a numbing level of foul talk. "This thing of ours" plays into every possible Italian mafia stereotype, and blatantly attempts to rip off good gangster films like "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather". I would rather watch "Pink Flamingos" again, than watch this failure again. Do not waste your time, life is too short, and this film is simply too bad.

This Mafia was the worst that I have seen so far. I am disappointed because there were some great character actors, who should have done a better job. The lead/director was terrible. Not only was he a bad actor, but there was no character development to even vaguely have the viewer symphatize with any of the major or minor characters. If this was a parody of Mafia films, I would understand why the film sucked. Get a day job, and don't do anymore Indi films. What I don't understand is why Frank Vicente and the other bigger names decided to sully their repuations by taking part in this film. And, I don't understand the terrible anecdotes that were parlayed during the various meal scenes. It was horrific. I kept hoping that "Tony Soprano" or Ray Liotto or any other character from Goodfellas or Casino appeared in the film. It was painful to watch. Thank God for fast forwarding.

Nice to see the mob genre still alive, this piece of material represents the mid echelon (quality wise) of the "lesser known mob movies".

Filled with typical mob movie actors such as Frank Vincent, and Vincent Pastore, complemented by James Caan, the movie starts of in a typical mob conversation around the table, which is well acted, filmed and directed. The ad lib acting makes it work. The story line is somewhat bold, yet true to facts, since the mafia is now known to operate through cyberspace, but the extend of this heist they're planning make it unrealistic for me. The overall acting has its ups and downs, several ad lib conversations are hilarious in character, and certainly reminiscent of the famous "what do you mean I'm funny" bit by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas", and other scenes and characters are severely overdone, or all out amateuristic and bad. All in all I had a fine time watching this movie, it's certainly worth at least one viewing, since it's certainly NOT the worst mafia movie out there.

Not a must have DVD, but for completionists, such as me.

I saw this movie this week in FL and thought it was a great movie. The story was exciting and unique -- and the acting was wonderful. The direction was bold and the writing was crisp and authentic. With all the bad movies out there, it is a suprise that this isn't in more theaters. I hope we can be expecting more films of this caliber from Danny Provenzano.