A melodrama of the underworld with incidents of the usual, outworn kind, such as escapes down a dumbwaiter, the escape of the crook with the help of his sweetheart, etc. The picture's story shows a gangster reformed through love. The meeting of this youth and the girl and the progress of the romance at the dance hall and on the stairs of the tenement, etc., are often pretty, but not very new or vital. The gangster got a glimpse of money in the possession of a collector who was the girl's father, but he didn't know this. He broke into his rooms at night. The girl's small brother got down the dumb-waiter and brought the police. But in the meantime, the girl and the gangster have recognized each other and when the police arrive, she helps him to slip away, not very convincingly. It will serve as a very fair filler, because it was artistically posed and photographed, even if it wasn't very convincingly written or acted. - The Moving Picture World, February 17, 1912
Review of The Transformation of Mike
