The Alto Knights

More interesting in the context of Robert De Niro’s filmography than it is necessarily as a standalone picture.

I don't know why this movie exists. It breathes no new new life into the mobster movie genre at all and will only serve to remind you of better movies.

Broadly speaking, I like this as a piece of classical gangster theater.

It's solid. Seen it all before, but I kind of enjoy this gangster fare.

Anything that comes across like a deleted scene from Scorsese provides welcome jolts of laughter to the otherwise dry proceedings.

It’s not that the film is bad, it’s just strained. It’s trying to be weighty when it should’ve just been more entertaining.

Yet, tragically, the resulting film from Rain Main’s Barry Levinson is a lacklustre effort considering the talent on offer.

Robert De Niro is a force of nature, even in the worst of films.

De Niro leads another enjoyable Italian American Gangster story with all the cloak and dagger intrigue we’ve come to anticipate. The Alto Knights had dialogue that felt like foreshadowing but mostly didn’t materialise so resulted in old man talking.

The Alto Knights is an impressive film, taking inherently interesting material and doing very well not to foul it up.