Any production with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones as the top credited actors is sure to make for a well-acted film. The three have an incredible list of accolades including Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (and wins) for best actor and actress, top grossing films and regularly being regarded as some of the highest talents in Hollywood. These three possess natural talent and are easily able to feed off of one another throughout the course of the film. De Niro (Fred Blake/Giovanni Manzoni) and Jones (Robert Stansfield) do a wonderful job of helping to lead the cast and are brilliant as usual, however, it is clear that Pfeiffer (Maggie Blake) and her and Fred’s children, Dianna Agron (Belle Blake) and John D’Leo (Warren Blake) steal the show. Their characters were hilariously intuitive and exotic in their approach to life. They so wonderfully encapsulated the idea of the Italian mafia and what most would believe Americans look and act like. Writer and director Luc Besson did a phenomenal job of breaking the film into two seemingly equal parts. The first part was fun and consisted mostly of character development through humor and some nonsensical behavior. The second half of the film consisted of what essentially everyone thought was coming. The denoumat was intense and dramatic. The dialogue and action sequences were nearly perfect throughout the last thirty minutes of the film while the Blake family was under attack. Besson has written and directed a number of successful films since the early 1980’s, and while this film does not quite live up to some of his previous films, it is safe to say that this film had an energy conducive to an experience that fans of drama, comedy and action can enjoy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404311/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2
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