Mobsters (1991)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 27
Despite an abundance of style and some big names, Mobsters can't escape its empty plotting, numbing violence, and Gangster Movie 101 concepts.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 11
Despite an abundance of style and some big names, Mobsters can't escape its empty plotting, numbing violence, and Gangster Movie 101 concepts.
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Movie Info
In this fictionalized account based on true figures, a foursome of young thugs decides to team up and take control of New York's east side from the aging bosses who control it. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater) and Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey) bring up the business end. ~ John Bush, Rovi
Jul 26, 1991 Wide
Sep 30, 2003
MCA Universal Home Video
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Cast
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Christian Slater
Charlie "Lucky" Luci... -
Patrick Dempsey
Meyer Lansky -
Richard Grieco
Benny "Bugsy" Siegel -
Costas Mandylor
Frank Costello -
F Murray Abraham
Arnold Rothstein -
Lara Flynn Boyle
Mara Motes -
Anthony Quinn
Don Masseria -
Michael Gambon
Don Feranzano -
Chris Penn
Tommy Reina -
Nicholas Sadler
Mad Dog Coll -
Bill Bastiani
Short Stick -
Leslie Bega
Anna Lansky -
Anna Berger
Mrs. Greene -
Theresa Berquist
Dancer -
Stan Berry
Card Player -
Sean Blackman
Another Italian -
Lada Boder
Dancer -
Kerry Brennan
Dancer -
Don Brockett
Irish Politician -
Clark Heathcliffe Br...
Mike Shane -
Seymour Cassel
Father Bonotto -
John Chappoulis
Joe Bonnano -
Alan Charof
Rabbi -
Frank Collison
Sonny Catania -
Janice Cronkhite
Dancer -
Russell Curry
Black Gangster -
Erik Degn
Goon -
Nick Dimitri
Bodyguard -
Rodney Eastman
Joey -
Ava Fabian
Cute Girl -
Russ Fega
Nathan Citron -
Fyvush Finkel
Tailor -
Linda Fontanette
Maid -
Richard Garneau
Room Service Waiter -
Willie Garson
Telephone Operator -
Jennifer Gatti
Secretary -
Caroline Gillette
Little Sister -
Elizabeth Graham
Cute Girl -
Suzie Hardy
Dancer -
Melissa Hurley
Dancer -
Bryan Law
Irish Thug -
Sharmagne Leland-St....
Wedding Guest -
Anya Longwell
Showgirl -
Monique Noel Lovelac...
Showgirl -
Shannon Maloney
Dancer -
Ron Marquette
Maitre d' -
James Michael
Tony No Nose -
Emile Nicolaou
Kid -
Anto Nolan
Irish Cop -
Trish Pamish
Dancer -
Rachel Parker
Dancer -
Miles Perlich
Crapshooter -
Steve Picerni
Luciano's Driver -
Steve Restivo
Little Brother -
Andy Romano
Antonio Luciano -
J.P. Romano
Goon -
Karen Russell
Showgirl -
Jeremy Schoenberg
Crapshooter -
Jan Solomita
Wedding Guest -
Trish Steele
Costello'sMother -
Traci Swensen
Joey's Mother -
Leonard Termo
Joe Palermo -
Carmen Twillie
Blues Singer -
Anna Villa
Dancer -
Joe Viterelli
Joe Profaci -
Lynette Walden
Cute Debutante -
Titus Welliver
Al Capone -
Jim Wilkey
Coll's Driver -
Robert Z'Dar
Rocco -
Bianca Rossini
Rosalie Luciano -
Charlie Picerni
Bodyguard
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All Critics (28) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (27) | DVD (2)
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.
Top CriticSlater and Dempsey bring to the film whatever shallow depth Mobsters occasionally exhibits.
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.
A hollow concept gussied up with a few big names, a pretty set and some fancy clothes.
Despite competent production, despite-or perhaps because of-a high and inventively mutilated body count, the film is ultimately boring.
High concept, sleek stylishness, low content.
Mobsters is a bloody little fairy tale that makes good guys out of Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. According to the film, a largely plodding affair, they were just four kids who liked to kill people once in a while.
The virtue of GoodFellas was that it took the glamor out of mob sagas, and it's going to take a picture a lot better than Mobsters to put it back in.
In an attempt to find the origins of infamous gangsters Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello and Benny "Bugsy" Siegel, Karbelnikoff has rendered lame caricatures instead of meaty characters.
It feels like a history lesson from a particularly inept substitute teacher, hitting only a few highlights before it returns to a flat read of gangster specifics.
One of the most fogettable theatrical releases of 1991.
It's just silly, sick and shallow.
Cool guys mob flick
It was either this or watch paint dry
It's like Young Guns with mobsters ... only stupider.
None of these boys looks particularly grown up in their trench coats and fedoras and they shouldn't be playing with guns.
Slater has already proven he doesn't have to make good movies to be popular, and this one is slightly better than his usual mediocre fare.
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