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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Worth watching once because it's based on a true story,
This review is from: Mob Justice (DVD)
Worth watching once because it's based on a true story. There's not much action in terms of shooting. It's more like a drama.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
What'cha gone do,
By Nardsbaby "Connoisseur of the written word™" (Westside Chi-town, IL United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Mob Justice (DVD)
Is this Tony from "who's the boss?" All dieseled up and focused on making certain that he isn't playing with the FEDS.
BAD BOY BAD BOY WHAT'CHA GONE DO? WHAT'CHA GONE DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU? In this Docudrama we watch as Gus Farce a murderous drug dealer becomes expendable to the MOB as well as the few friends that he had. For this to be a mob movie it was very little action. You got more of a glimpse of what the FEDS/cops do in order to entrap fugitives. As gangster movies go, this is one that is more of a cold chill and not because it's action packed!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Brainy, tense, stress- inducing film on DEA agents in a failed sting operation,
By Pork Chop (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mob Justice (DVD)
MOB JUSTICE (1991, TV) also known as "The Race for Gus Farace" is a
brainy, tense, stress, panic, and claustrophobic - inducing film, concerning the blowback from law enforcement for the shooting of one of their undercover DEA agents in a failed sting operation. Perhaps the ambition of this picture was too diminutive, as its lack of widescreen, and audio simplicity and repetitiveness as heard in the soundtrack needlessly makes the final product lose points. A bit more effort and money would have resulted in a more world-class movie. Another weakness, is that more could have been done in the humor department, and in the development of the personal relationships of the protagonists. Also, more random outcomes are lacking vs the predictable outcomes seen time and again over 90 mins. The movie often only emphasizes the logical, business-only, one-tracking mind aspects of the characters. Yet, there's a great cast selected, in Samuel L. Jackson as the DEA agent, Nicholas Turturro as someone who is coerced in participating in activities he feels and knows are wrong and inappropriate, Frank Vincent as the cool, calm, collected, authoritative leader, assisted by Dan Lauria and Tony Danza, the latter remarkably capable of communicating the panic of his own fugitive situation. A strong point of this work, is its real life story inspiration, showing the repulsive underbelly of underworld organizations, when something goes wrong, such as in this case, wheb an associates took out an undercover Federal agent during narco-trafficking busts. Surely, underworld members have a plan and a part to play, having to do it cleanly, professionally, leaving no messes, under the risk of the individual becoming a liability to the organization, such as from being a stool pigeon and a wanted man by the law. The script skillfully demonstrates the litany of tools and tactics that are effectively deployed on suspects and witnesses, to pressure them in cooperating, ruining them financially if need be, putting out large monetary awards to gain informants, with the added possibility of influencing a judge's sentence depending on helpfulness from the accused or suspects. The story shows the ease obtaining the cooperation, and confessions from individuals taking part in the ilicit dealings, as there is ultimately no question on which is more powerful, financially, legall practicically. Varied surveillance technologies are touched upon, such as powerful cameras, wireless body microphones, phone taps, etc. A strength is showing the simplicity of human beings, in terms of human rapports, how the human condition often instinctively tells people to lend a helping hand to friends who are in hardship, soemtimes with unforeseen consequences. Conversely, the ring leaders themselves use torture and varied tactics to achieve their desired ends, in this case, for tracing the fugitive's whereabouts. Overall, the work imparts on the viewer, a lesson on the consequences of murder, the lack of glamor in the organizations, but preferring not to explain why so many are attracted to it - the sky-high profits, although carried out at high risk
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