Mafia

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The movie has a good plot and 3 strong actors (Grier, Patrick and Rhames) but the supporting cast was horrible. Story seems to jump around and truly starts to seem pointless. Would like to see this movie done with a higher budget, different supporting cast and director.

Ving Rhames doing what he does best - playing the villain. Mafia was a very odd movie, but it was actually half decent. In trying to compare this flick to other movies, two people keep popping up in my head.. Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick. Now this movie is nowhere near the calibers of Pulp Fiction or Full Metal Jacket, but it brought me the same sense of strange, random chaos that Tarantino and Kubrick deliver in their movies. I won't even attempt to analyze this film any further, because I think the viewer should have an unbiased opinion in order to draw their own conclusions. Keep Mafia in the back of your head for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Total garbage. I think Ving is still upset about his basement romance in "Pulp Fiction ". And will someone please givev MeMaw Pam a mirror. It's too late to try acting lessons. I can never watch "Foxy Brown" again, I know what the future holds for her. Do yourself a favor...follow a dog until it leaves a pile and look at that for 90 minutes. It will probably be more entertaining than this. Did I mention the bad wigs?

This movie was terrible from the story line to the sets...everything about this movie stunk. NEWS FLASH GUYS...black folk absolutely did not wear mohawk haircuts in the seventies. I didnt even realize this horror show was suppose to be a 70s period piece untill about 30 minutes in...thats how bad the sets and wardrobe was...Ving Rhames did a good Job with very bad material but other than that..oh HOLD Up..why they got my man gillie looking like a slow circus clown..lol.

Mafia is a crime flick in the tradition of New Jack City starring Ving Rhames as Renzo,a psychotically violent aspiring crime kingpin hoping to take over the whole city with the help of his crew. Set in the 70's and shot 70's style with an old school R&B soundtrack, we watch as Renzo kills everyone standing in his way while a pair of cops try to connect him to the crimes. The cops, a hothead with a vendetta played by Pam Grier and a laid back straight arrow played by Robert Patrick, cannot catch the crook in the act as he goes around presenting himself as a legitimate investment banker. There's not much to this movie. It's violent, really short, and Ving Rhames does a great job in a role that plays to his strengths allowing him to be both smart and deadly, not unlike his character in Pulp Fiction. The two cops are underwritten but the actors' performances are fairly good. The rest of the supporting cast is pretty terrible, unfortunate especially considering how much time is spent on Renzo's conscious stricken right hand man. The movie doesn't have much to say or anything, other than the 70's setting, to set it aside from other movies of its kind. There are occasional references to blacksploitation but they're not a huge part of the movie. Rhames wears African garb and Pam Grier is obviously playing a riff on her Foxy Brown role but this movie never has the fighting the system mentality of those classic movies. Basically, this is a passable, generic little crime flick that's pretty watchable, especially for fans of Rhames, but don't expect a classic.

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Mafia