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Summary: A mob classic!
Review: This is a great movie! If you are into mob movies, this is a must-have. It is a classic and the cast of actors is incredible.
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Summary: A "Touching" Bronx Tale
Review: "A Bronx Tale" delivers with many life messages. Along the way, Calogero or "C" gets involved with Sonny, a local mob boss. C's father, Lorenzo doesn't like the fact that his son is with Sonny a lot. De Niro does a magnificent job with his acting as well as Chazz Palminteri. There is a racial event between the Italians and the Blacks that is depicted very realistic. It is set during the 1960's and portrays an average Italian neighborhood. Calogero must pick between Sonny's fast life or his father's working life. This is one of my favorite mob movies that keeps on delivering scence after scene.
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Summary: a terrific film
Review: This movie is everything you can expect. The story is about a young buy who idolizes a gang member, which toments his old man.Not only is a a good character study, it tells a good tale of Italian thug life in New York City.
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Summary: Very Satisfying!
Review: If a movie stays with me long after I've watched the final credits roll, I know I've watched a great movie. And I'm glad to say that A Bronx Tale is such a movie.This story of C's struggle to balance his love for his hardworking father Lorenzo and the neighborhood mob boss Sonny captivates from beginning to end. I appreciate how Sonny is not written off as a two-bit hood. This is the first movie I've seen that didn't succumb to the usual mobster stereotypes. While I abhored the violence of "the life," I was touched by Sonny's humanity. One of the most touching moments of the film (among many) was when C seemed to agonize between sitting in the nosebleed section with his father at the boxing match, and sitting with Sonny in the ringside seat. C obviously wanted to go down to ringside, but he seemed to love and respect his father so much that he apologized to his father and stayed put. How many teenagers would do that today? Or at least do so with as much respect and humbleness as opposed to rolling their eyes and smarting off. Joe Pesci's appearance at the end was disturbing but very effective. You could see that he would probably usher in a more hardcore crime element in the neighborhood. So I breathed a sigh of relief when C said he would be "giving the bar a rest." Since I didn't live in the Bronx during the 1960's, I can't speak for how racial matters were handled. But I found the inclusion of the interracial romance to be well-handled. There was just enough tension and violence to let viewers know that the neighborhood wasn't a racial utopia; but at the same time, the film showed what might have happened--or probably happened, but wasn't talked about much. I think both Taral Hicks (who played Jane) and Lillo Bracato (who played the teenaged C) did a good job of portraying teenage love in an awkward and sweet way. I don't know about anybody else, but I was PLEADING for Jane to pull that door lock up! (Remember Sonny's door test?) Overall, I rank this movie up there at the top as one of the great ones (though severely underappreciated) of all time. Robert De Niro is at his best in this film, though his part seems small. Chazz Palmentieri is also excellent. I wish he would write more screenplays, and allow De Niro to direct. This movie presents themes that anyone (not necessarily any one ethnic group) can relate to, even in 2001. Everything in life is not up or down or left or right. There are gray areas in life that we all struggle with. I think this film does a good job of showing this universal struggle.
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Summary: DeNiro's Directorial debut is great.
Review: Robert DeNiro directs a Chazz Palmentarri screenplay about a kid in the mob and looking up to the wrond role models. Joe Pesci has a great cameo appearance as Mob boss Carmine. He is great. I recomend this to anybody. Directed by Robert DeNiro. Cast:Robert DeNiro.Chazz Palmentari.Joe Pesci.
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Summary: Another classic
Review: This movie is different than all the other gangster/mafia movies b/c it deals w/other issues instead of the daily struggle of living around that environment. I thought Robert De Niro did a decent job but the real praise goes to Lillo Brancato who played Robert De Niro's son. This young actor stole the show from everyone else and put on a show. I was stunned at how fluent and easy he acted, his actions and emotions seemed realistic. I continue to recommend this movie to family and friends even though it's not recent. It has some themes and lessons that anyone can learn from this movie and it's enterataining at the same moment. Great movie to watch with a girlfriend or close one.
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Summary: Wow...
Review: I didn't see all of this movie, but the bits I did see were great. The acting is brilliant and I thought the score was really good, especially the credits at the end. Throughout the film I was sure either Sonny, C, Jane or C's father were going to die - it was that kind of film - but they made the inevitable death a necessary plot development rather than a cop-out ending. I thought it was v.v sad when Sonny died - but it wasn't soppy. Also with Sonny they protrayed him as a good and bad guy at the same time - that was v clever. The only thing is that at the end the last speech is a little preachy, but it's just about carried off. Great film - and it deosn't reveal in buckets of blood and gratuitous bad language. That sort of stuff is in proportion to the situation - overall, well done!
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Summary: A First Class Story Line!!!!!! 5 Star performances by all!
Review: What riveting performances Palminteri and De Niro Turn in on this excellently written (by Palminteri) and scripted film. Palminteri's performance will have you spellbound from his very first scene until his tragic final one. De Niro does an excellent job of directing here. De Niro also paints a very impassioned and sympathetic picture of an Italian father (the role originally played by Palminteri on Broadway) fighting desperately to win his son back from a ruthless, but charming mobster. De Niro is truly the greatest actor of all time. Another standout is Lillo Brancato as De Niro's confused but basically good son Callogero, torn between the mentoring of criminal Sonny and his dad, Lorenzo. One of the greatest movies of all time. Definitely worth watching and rewatching over and over again. Truly a first class movie all the way!
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Summary: A Bronx Tale- I'd go for Godfather, Goodfellas and Donnie B
Review: Despite what other reviewers have said, this film is average and very mediocre at best. It seems to be a film with a split personality., unable to decide wether its a mob flick, a movie portraying teenage terrorism and thugery or a film based on racial prejudice. Rather than focus on one main story this film seems to lack any real plot and at no point during the film did I really think to myself, brilliant, directing, cinematography or story line. Some of the scenes are embarassing to say the least and acting is very weak. This fil also tried to be very Goodfellas like, however it failed because the music used was unable to compare with that used in Godfellas, the plot is far weaker, the voice over used, rather than enhance the film as it did in Goodfellas slowed it down and simply made the fil worse. Apart from DeNiro (who is brilliant as always) the acting is weak and average at the best and why they never used Pesci through out the film rather than the one small scene at the end is a mystery to me. This film is not anywhere as good as some people seem to believe. If you want a classy, old fashioned, traditional mob flick what the Godfather- its a classic. If you want fast, well done, well directed, gritty, more down to earth mob action with superb music watch Goodfellas and if you want something in the middle with a strong story line and superb acting- watch Donnie Brasco. All three films beat a Bronx Tale hands down and I would rather watch each of them twenty more times than sit down and watch a bronx tale for the second time.
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Summary: A Heartwarming and Very Entertaining Film
Review: My father suggested I see this film, to give me an insight into his own childhood in a crowded New York neighborhood. It is the tale of a young Bronx boy, torn between admiration for his hard-working, honest father in a lower-middle class Bronx neighborhood, and his hero-worship of a colorful mobster. The characters are not one-dimensional stereotypes: Robert De Niro,as the father, is overbearing in his well-meaning love for his son, and Chazz Palmintieri as the mobster is genuinely caring as boy's wrong-side-of-the-law mentor. The film spins an engrossing tale of the boy's struggle to decide between two very different ways of life. It is a very accurate reflection of the dilemma of many urban young men. A well-acted, well-crafted film.
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