Mafioso: The Father, The Son

Starring:Sal Mazzotta, Leo Rossi
Studio: Allumination
Product Type: DVD

Description

Don Antonio Paradiso is a pious man, a loving husband, a devoted father...andthe head of a legendary crime family that "owns" the city of Philidelphia. His son Franks is the heir apparent to his father's empire, but an assassination attempt wreaks havoc on both personal and business dealings. Together with the most trusted members of the Paradiso organisation, Frank tries to discover who is responsible. But as he gets closer, he not only becomes a target himself, he discovers betrayal where he least expects it.

Customer Reviews:

A Mafia mish mash of a movie..........2007-01-29

This film contains every Mafia/Italian American stereotypical cliche in the book. In an hour and forty minutes you get elements of the "Sopranos", "Goodfellows", and "The Godfather" all rolled into one low budget movie. I was amused at how far the producers were willing to go with this! Hence the two star rating...

Cheap Sopranos rip off falls way short.......2005-10-30

I like gangster movies and am from Philly so I gave this movie a chance. What a mistake. The creators painstakingly tried to rip off the Sopranos but wound up with a very weak imitation.

It starts with the horrible theme song. It's obviously trying to sound similar to the A3 song that serves as the Sopranos theme, but is chock full of horrible lyrics and sounds like someone threw a Casio keyboard down the stairs and recorded it.

The cast is filled mediocre actors, trying in vain to save a stupid script. One funny thing is that everyone in the film has a different accent, and with the exception of one guy, no one can do a south philly accent.

Sal Mazzotta is trying real hard to be James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, but I'm sorry... he may be a nice guy in real life, but the guy couldn't act scared in a graveyard at midnight. And come on; this guy as a gangster? Maybe as Lurch in the Adams Family.

This movie is also plauged by choppy editing and poor camera work. I mean in a few scenes the camera is actually going in and out of focus while people are talking. Don't they teach that in film school? And usually when two people are talking their heads will be turned to one angle for the wide two person shot, and at completely different angles for close ups, like maybe the close up stuff was done much later.

Save your money. Wish I could get mine back. It's been a long time since I saw a movie so bad I felt angry and ripped off for having seen it.

GREAT MAFIA MOVIE.......2004-12-16

This movie is a great movie to add to your DVD collection. Especially if you are a mob fan. This movie is about corruption within the mob, about betrayal, about death and dying. It starts off with someone trying to whack the don, and the family trying to find out who it is and why. I'm not going to ruin it for anyone by telling the story. Just watch it. Mario Puzo's The Last Don (1997) was great too.

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