I love Harvey Keitel's acting chops but this is like an outtake from "The Irishman" where aging actors get one more shot at what they used to be brilliant at. He's still quite engaging but that energy is missing.
You couldn't have more of a wimp/wet blanket than the character portrayed by Sam Worthington, who is a hack writer hired by Lansky to tell his version of his life story.
It's either real bad acting or it's a case of a person just being himself, but it's vary hard to connect with him in this part.
The story shows the rise of Lansky through his combined gifts of ruthlessness and numbers talent ..... and the cast in these flashback scenes does a pretty good job. They have no problem offing people who get out of line.
Lansky is being chased by the FBI who are on a mission to recover some mythical 300 million dollars that he's supposed to have stashed away.
It's not a very successful mission and the way they go about it is very poorly presented, to the extent that they are made to look like caricatures of real FBI agents.
There's a love angle of course but even that is emotionless and shallow, as is most of the movie to be honest.
It's OK for a Saturday night if you're fed up watching "The Antiques Roadshow" but I wouldn't recommend that you spend real money to go and see it.
You couldn't have more of a wimp/wet blanket than the character portrayed by Sam Worthington, who is a hack writer hired by Lansky to tell his version of his life story.
It's either real bad acting or it's a case of a person just being himself, but it's vary hard to connect with him in this part.
The story shows the rise of Lansky through his combined gifts of ruthlessness and numbers talent ..... and the cast in these flashback scenes does a pretty good job. They have no problem offing people who get out of line.
Lansky is being chased by the FBI who are on a mission to recover some mythical 300 million dollars that he's supposed to have stashed away.
It's not a very successful mission and the way they go about it is very poorly presented, to the extent that they are made to look like caricatures of real FBI agents.
There's a love angle of course but even that is emotionless and shallow, as is most of the movie to be honest.
It's OK for a Saturday night if you're fed up watching "The Antiques Roadshow" but I wouldn't recommend that you spend real money to go and see it.