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Movie Info

The life of Milanese mobster Renato Vallanzasca.

Rating:

R (Nudity|Drug Use|Pervasive Language|Some Sexual Content|Strong Brutal Violence)
Genre:

crime, mystery and thriller, biography, drama
Original Language:

Italian
Director:

Michele Placido
Producer:

Elide Melli
Writer:

Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Placido, Antonio Leotti, Toni Trupia
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 25, 2015
Runtime:

2h 5m

Cast & Crew

Kim Rossi Stuart
Renato Vallanzasca

Filippo Timi
Enzo

Moritz Bleibtreu
Sergio

Valeria Solarino
Consuelo

Paz Vega
Antonella D'Agostino

Francesco Scianna
Francis Turatello

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Critic Reviews for Vallanzasca

All Critics (25) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (12)

What is missing is any sort of psychological insight. Just what made Renato run? You won't find out here.

June 17, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
To borrow Robert Evans's famous quotation about "The Godfather," you can smell the spaghetti, but less sauce might have helped.

June 16, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Andy Webster
New York Times
Gangster clichs fly like submachine gun bullets in the Italian crime biopic "Angel of Evil," a restless and hollow rundown of '70s criminal Renato Vallanzasca.

June 16, 2011 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
As a tale of squabbling gangsters and prison intrigues, "Angel of Evil" is ordinary.

June 16, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4

Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
You can all but feel the checklist being marked off, and the viewer is never really drawn into the world or made to care what's happening.

June 14, 2011 | Full Review…

Ernest Hardy
Village Voice
Surprisingly poor on the larger social context.

May 28, 2011 | Full Review…

Philip French
Guardian
Stuart gives a tour-de-force as Vallanzasca.

September 2, 2020 | Rating: 3.0/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
Emotional, intense and truly shocking at times, the movie presents the known facts on a golden plate for the audience to make up their own mind. It's violent, raw, vibrating with tension and punctuated with clever irony.

November 10, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Margherita Pellegrino
CineVue
Not to indulge in clich, but given that Rossi Stuart penned the script with five other writers, it probably shouldn't be a surprise that so many cooks created a meal that's all sauce and no spaghetti.

June 24, 2011 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Jeff Meyers
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
The film, like all gangster movies, gets off on glamour and guns, which initially makes it a thrill to watch...

June 6, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alistair Harkness
Scotsman
Cmpetently made, but after Mesrine, the recent Carlos The Jackal film and the Mafiathemed Gomorrah, this is one sub-genre that's fast reaching saturation point.

May 27, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

David Edwards
Daily Mirror (UK)
The main reason to see this is a charismatic leading performance by Kim Rossi Stuart. Even so, it makes two hours feel like four.

May 26, 2011 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail (UK)

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Audience Reviews for Vallanzasca

Jan 13, 2013

Stylish, thrilling true-crime film based on the story of Italian mobster Renato Vallanzasca. Charismatically played by the superb Kim Rossi Stuart, there's validity in the argument that the film glamourises, sometimes even approves of his crimes. But there's real technical skill in front and behind of the camera and as a piece of cinema it's quite something.

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Angel of Evil Quotes

Renato Vallanzasca:	...the moment a man loses his self-esteem believing there's no limit to violence, is the moment he's no longer a man
Renato Vallanzasca:	The moment a man loses his self-esteem believing there's no limit to violence, is the moment he's no longer a man.

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