this long wind film turn out to be less about berkowitz and his effect on nyc and but more about painting caricature of a certain group of italian american and know locally a guidos . the problem be that guidos be uninteresting and no matter what kind of story or setting they be immerse in . they be already living caricature and so lee only amplify them and rather than simply portray them . when someone have a caricature do of themselves and they do not go home and say and hey and let make the ear and nose even big . that what lee have do in this film . the most interesting character in the film be the two ( adrian brody and jennifer esposito ) who wish to escape the guido lifestyle . top it off with an uninteresting storyline for the character and particularly john leguizamo and and you get a nice film to fall asleep by . especially consider it lengthy run time . one more strike against it represent for someone proclaiming to be a yankees fan and and have grow up in new york and spike lee should know how to spell phil rizzuto and which be spell incorrectly in the closing credit .