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Street Boss (2009)
The worst mafia movie I've ever seen ....
Sometimes, low budget mafia movies can be a pleasant surprise, 'This Thing Of Ours' springs to mind. I started out with reasonable hopes that 'Street Boss' would be a run of the mill mafia verses FBI story. Its based on true events, when the Boston mafia were toppled by exhaustive FBI pressure. The movie starts out with a familiar face to any mafia movie fan, probably best known as 'Big Pussy' from HBO hit series 'The Sopranos'. He's in the movie for about 15 seconds and it all goes down hill from that point on. The main FBI charchter is such a wooden actor its painful to watch, the soundtrack score is awful, and the editing and direction are a shambles. The whole thing is just plain rubbish. If your looking for low budget or TV movies about the mafia, try 'This Thing Of Ours', 'Gotti', or 'Boss Of Bosses' and leave 'Sreet Boss' alone, i regret having watched this trash.
Uncle David (2010)
Hitchock would have liked this movie
It's no secret that the UK film industry has needed a boost in it's arm lately, indeed it's been achingly obvious for all to see for too long now, so it's refreshing to see a movie like 'Uncle David'. Let's look closer .......
From the start we know David and Ashley are different from most couples, although at first, this is communicated more in ambiance than actual wordplay... We are allowed to suspect much, yet privy to not very much at all. We see David, pimping out young Ashley, yet we don't see Ashley complaining, in fact, we see Ashley as a conformative and willing participant, without fear or resistance. That same capitulation isn't shared by David, whom seem's aggrieved and tortured by his predicament, despite it being by his own design...
As the movie progresses, we see David musing lyrical about the right's and wrong's in life, inspired rap's that almost have you nodding in agreement... something's wrong though...something isn't clicking into place, and the tension ensue's....
Without giving the game away, you're gripped from the very start, suspecting a grotesque injustice is about to take place, and never quite knowing when. Hitchock would have liked this movie....and he'd have been right to do so.....