This very weak docudrama is about a turf war between the Irish and Italian mobs in Cleveland during the 1970's. Movie has a couple of serious problems. The Irish mobster Danny Greene . . . who we think is a good guy and family man . . . turns out to be a strong arm man and killer. We really never get to know what makes him tick. Or in cinema words . . . his character is never developed.Second problem. We never get any real information about the mobs operation or the local cops and FBI response. Just turf war and violence.
Movie never gets off the ground.
From Rotten Tomatoes:
The problem is that writer-director Jonathan Hensleigh doesn't do much beyond filling in the template; he's telling the specific, true-life tale of mob decline in 1970s Cleveland, but every character and setpiece feels like it fell off a truck.
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