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Mark's Place (2019)
What is this?
2 minutes in I had to turn it off, maybe it makes a rebound and is the next Cheers, but I'm betting against that.
That intro looked like a high school film project, that got an F.
Gotti (2018)
This could've been way better.
I know Gotti's story, so I could put two and two together, but I'd tell anyone and their mother, go see the HBO one over this.
The acting wasn't bad at all, it was so loosely tied together I don't see how if you weren't familiar w/Gotti you'd have a clue what was happening.
Like what happened w/the guy that died in the bar fight w/Jr? (and has there ever been a bar fight over a stranger offering to buy you and your crew drinks?)
I know from reading John Alite's book, this happened, someone died like this, and that night Travolta even said 'this will ruin your future' but the movie never went back to it.
If you are into the mob and stuff, and don't expect too much, you'll enjoy it, if not I wouldn't recommend it to you.
Mob Town (2019)
If you are a Mob buff do it, or else forget it
I'm only saying forget it if you aren't into the mob because it got a 4.4 before my 8.0
Skip the romance w/Jenifer Esposito, & its real good.
I liked it.
Maybe there wasn't a lot of drama, but it followed the facts, such as names and dates, at least. Not sure on the police end.
Alcatraz Prison Escape: Deathbed Confession (2015)
Not bad, if you are looking for fiction
There is a completely new theory out there, I won't get into that, but that same Marshall is on the other story, It is way more believable than this one.
Alcatraz, the search for truth.
The Marshall looks 10-15 years younger in this, when I saw this available on Amazon Prime, it said it came out in 2017. I figured it was the same story. Then it went in a new direction, so not sure how this came out this late, and this close to the other story. (IMDB says 2015)
Parts I think were true:
* I do think they got away, as not one body, not one piece of clothe, nothing was found of them. Which by all accounts is rare.
* I think the Alan West part of the story is true.
* and I think the it not being a secret in the jail before it happened, is essentially true.
BUT........my reason for saying this story is total non-sense, is there it would be impossible for 10-20 people to keep this a secret. For 50+ years, a Clint Eastwood movie about it, nuns, multiple prison guards, the uncle of the narrator, the family members that raised 60k (=$482k,, today), PLUS paid off the guards? Give me a break.
IMO, that is enough.There were way too many people in on this, but also, why would you take a boat all the way to Seattle? If I was the getaway guys, I'd want to get them an hour or 2 up the coast, and get on land no where near SF. Not still be on a boat for the next day, or so. SF could've called the coast guard. Its 800 miles from SF-SEA, even if they had a boat that went 50 mph, it would take 16 hours.
I hope I can edit and add later, as there were other things that didn't add up.