Title: Mediocre work
Product review: From the moment a white statue swung into view suspended from a helicopter, I knew that this would not be good. What could a glaring homage to "La dolce vita" add to a movie about a Russian mobster's family? It was only a childish diversion, but it exemplified the essential incompetence of the writer and director, incapable of an original idea and--far worse--incapable of a well orchestrated scene. There is a general awkwardness here, a sense of aspiring to making a movie but having only the most primitive idea of how to assemble a series of dramatic moments into a whole. The characterizations are obvious, the dialogue borrowed from five other gangster movies, the cinematography intrusive. Avoid this one.
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