richardbbj
Joined Aug 2022
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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.
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.