| Mobsters | | Cast : | Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey | | Director : | Michael Karbelnikoff | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 26, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | September 30, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | Horrible..... | Content
 | Almost everything in this movie is a lie.... Although somethings in the movie happened almost all of it didn't happen the way the movie potrays.. This movie should be outlawed for its unrealistic potral of some of the most respected gangsters in American history... |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | The Big Wait, equals Big DVD disappointment | Content
| I loved this movie when it first came out OK, so the actings not great at all, and the casting could have been better BUT after whoever finally decided to release this movie on DVD, they gave MINIMUM EFFORT in its creation.
DO IT PROPERLY, OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL!
LIST OF PROBLEMS
1) Several Scenes are missing on the DVD version eg, Richard Greicos' love scene when they go to meet Sam Rothestein. Basically on the UNCUT version on VHS he just takes one of the ladies at the party by the hand and they go off to a room together and he starts to seduce her by moving an ice pick gently all over her body while talking softly to her about how to kill somebody properly, after finishing telling her how to kill a man properly he slides off the top with the ice pick.
In this DVD version, his love scene is cut back dramatically, basically he takes off one side of her top with the ice pick, kisses her, then takes off the other side. no talking about how to kill a man properly. Whoever decided to cut the footage back, deserves to be shot. It just made the scene SOOO much more tasteless, almost made it look like D grade soft porn.
Another Scene missing from this is a beautiful scene where Charlie and his Dancer girlfriend are out on a picnic and they get caught in a rain storm
Another scene is where Charlie runs away from Farenzano at
Staten Island
Who knows what else is missing, these were just to name a few.
2) When it says BONUS on the DVD menu, I actually thought I was getting a BONUS! Silly me, after watching the movie and accessing the so called BONUS option on the DVD menu like I usually do after watching a DVD, I was left dumb founded and bitterly disappointed when the only 2 options of the so called BONUS material were 3 trailers, 2 of which look almost exactly the same and the other bonus was a picture of 3 other DVD's that are recommended for viewing. This is one of the worst cases of getting ripped off on a DVD that I have ever experienced.
I'll stick to my full UNCUT VHS version and pray that it survives until the next version of this DVD comes out again, hopefully a director's cut.
Message for the next makers of this film on DVD:
-DO IT PROPERLY, OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL
-DON'T CUT CORNERS TO MAKE THE LENGTH OF THE FILM SHORTER
-GIVE US BONUS MATERIALS THAT IS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED A BONUS, eg interviews, history documetaries, etc |
| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2005 | | Summary | Do yourself a favour and buy goodfellas or the godfather. | Content
| This film is pretty much the biggest waste of time and money possible! Don't buy this movie it's horrible! You work hard and you deserve alot better, buy the godfather trilogy!. Anyway the film is based on four friends who become gangsters and thats basically it, the reason this film sucks is because the plotting; the direction is good as well as the astmosphere of the film but the casting is horrible! This is the kind of film you can buy for 5 dollars in the walmart bin so don't waste 15 dollars buying it on here. The cast sucks! Christian Slater was good in True Romance but other than that he's just a pretty boy actor that never made it, kind of like Richard Grieco who also stars in this. But anyway this might be the film that killed oscar winning F. Murray Abrahams chances of ever becoming a big actor in the 90s. Maybe if the script was written better or if the cast was picked better it might not be buried in the walmart bin as we speak. 0 out of 5 stars. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 27, 2005 | | Summary | "Young Guns" with gangsters -- and that's no compliment! | Content
| Bdd acting, bad directing, bad plot, bad script. An okay way to spend a couple of hours if you like the genre and keep your expectations low. No way in the world is this a "modern classic," though.
Contrary to what Hollywood thinks, and contrary to what many in the audience may claim, many people DO get their history from the movies (just read a couple pages worth of reviews on any such film listed on Amazon), and that alone would take at least one star off of this film. Sure, you sometimes have to use a little poetic license to dramatize real people and events in a film, but when you start to resort to outright fiction to give a different impression than the facts would, you've failed. If you're going to tell a fictional story about four kids who grow up to take over organized crime in Prohibition America, then go all the way and don't use real historical figures as characters.
The even more unforgivable sin that this film commits is that it doesn't even attempt to demythologize organized crime. According to this thing, these four guys were working class heroes! Meyer Lansky always prided himself on never having personally taken a life himself -- but like Frank in "Scarface," he just had somebody else do it for him. Gotti and his ilk love this sort of crap, because even if they don't see themselves this way, they at least want the rest of us to see them this way.
If they had at least tried to show the true nature of these people, rather than glamorize them as antiheroes, this could have been a good film. As it is, it almost seems as if the script was written by a ten-year-old who dreams of someday growing up to be just like Lucky.
Somehow, I doubt the people who Luciano and company killed, raped, robbed, extorted and terrorized, etc. would find this a fair treatment of the times. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 06, 2004 | | Summary | Absolute garbage. | Content
| O.K. who's brainstorm was this? They need two behind the ear. How can you take the phenomenal, real life story of Charlie Luciano's rise to power during the Castellamarese war, and turn it into "Mobsters"?!! This had the potential to be a fantastic picture, up until they hired the casting director. Instead it was turned into 21 Jump Street during prohibition. Luciano, Maranzano, Costello, Lansky etc. are doing cartwheels in their grave everytime anyone puts this in their DVD player. Trust me, "Mobsters" is an offer you can definately refuse. |
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