Hoodlum

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Summary: Most excellent!!!
Review: This is a grand piece of cinematography! I see this movie as a great change from all the me-too sicillian mob movies. Laurence Fishburne masterfully plays the part of Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson, a mobster from the 1930's who battles Dutch Schultz for possesion of the Harlem district. I truly loved it and together with 'Heat' this is one of THE BEST mob-movies I have EVER seen...!

Rating:
Summary: black lottery
Review: This movies does an excellent job of taking you back to a time period where what black people used to survive, the mafia wanted part of. The numbers game kept a lot of people during the depression period feed. But Dutch s. wanted to control it all from The Queen. With the help of Lucky Luciano there were able to beat the Dutchman at his own game. great movie

Rating:
Summary: black lottery
Review: This movies does an excellent job of taking you back to a time period where what black people used to survive, the mafia wanted part of. The numbers game kept a lot of people during the depression period feed. But Dutch s. wanted to control it all from The Queen. With the help of Lucky Luciano there were able to beat the Dutchman at his own game. great movie

Rating:
Summary: Performances save un-original "Hoodlum"
Review: Three great actors, Laurence Fishburn, Tim Roth, and Andy Garcia, are what keep this dull and awkward crime drama going. Watching Tim Roth potray the legendary evil Dutch Schultz is amazing. Larry Fishburn is also good as gangster Bumpy Johnson, one of Dutch's biggest rival's in the era in which this film takes place. And although Andy Garcia has a reletively small part, his performance as Lucky Luciano is probably the best offered of that character (at least from what I've seen). Other than that, this is probably the most boring gangster movie i've ever seen. Had it been at least half and hour shorter, it MIGHT have come out lookin' better, but alas, i did not. I wish I could give it Two and a half stars, I think that would be a little more fair, but I had to be fair to anyone curious about this movie, and give it "2".