Mighty Fine Reviews
Top CriticIf you can overlook Andie MacDowell's Mitteleuropa accent as a Jewish Holocaust survivor (I know: big if), the cinematic roman a clef "Mighty Fine" has some quiet charms.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Mighty Fine is an incisive portrait of an insecure, manic-depressive tyrant that Mr. Palminteri makes entirely believable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Compuserve
A semi-autobiographical story of a man's over-reaching, which leads him to consider violent options in dealing with himself and his family.
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| Original Score: B
Shared Darkness
A somewhat drab and unimaginative telling further dents this dull melodrama of already rather limited psychological insights, and pat conclusions and catharses.
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| Original Score: D+
A well-meaning but unstable hand at the tiller, and a propensity for charting plot points, rather than a clear narrative destination.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Paste Magazine
We're left with something akin to a Lifetime movie, as there are a number of interesting possibilities, which could have added complexity and depth to the film, that are never fleshed out.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Too many directions can be as much of a liability for a movie as too few, and "Mighty Fine" heads in all of them.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Director Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld wraps so much narrative string around this slight ball it unravels messily, despite nice work from the reliable Palminteri.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Hard to imagine how a movie can manage to be so underdeveloped yet so depressing at the same time, but "Mighty Fine" manages to pull it off.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Its most distinctive aspect, unfortunately, is the hilarious sight of MacDowell struggling to speak German-accented English.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The mood is generally melodramatic and ends as mushy, aided by the soft-focus cinematography that drenches it all in melancholic nostalgia.
Slant Magazine
Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld's film seems oddly anemic when it deals with anyone but Chazz Palminteri's Joe.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Even a clever title can't galvanize this lightweight family drama.
