Rotten
It's an excuse for the latest crop of media-spawned personalities -- the male equivalent of starlets -- to invade the heavy-duty genre of the gangster film. They don't come up to Cagney's spats.
Michael Sragow, New Yorker
Mobsters
They didn't take orders...They took over.
1991 · 1h 44m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Karbelnikoff
Overview
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Director and cast
- Michael Karbelnikoff Director
- Christian Slater as Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano
- Patrick Dempsey as Meyer Lansky
- Richard Grieco as Bugsy Siegel
- Costas Mandylor as Frank Costello
- F. Murray Abraham as Arnold Rothstein
- Lara Flynn Boyle as Mara Motes
- Michael Gambon as Don Salvatore Faranzano
- Chris Penn as Tommy Reina
- Anthony Quinn Cast
- Rodney Eastman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
6%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mobsters looks like it was made by people who have seen too many gangster films for people who haven't seen any. There isn't a breath of life in the filmmaking.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Slater and Dempsey bring to the film whatever shallow depth Mobsters occasionally exhibits.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
A potboiler in the quick-and-dirty tradition of the B movies of the '30s, it may not win any Oscars or garner rave reviews, but it's consistently entertaining, nevertheless.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
A hollow concept gussied up with a few big names, a pretty set and some fancy clothes.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
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