eight academy nomination . it beyond belief . i can only think it be a very bad year even by hollywood standard . with huston a director and jack nicholson and kathleen turner a lead i probably would have swallow the bait and watch this anyway and but the oscar nomination really sell it to me and and i feel distinctly cheat a a result . so it a black comedy be it . can anyone tell me where the humour be in prizzi honor . it certainly tasteless ( the shooting in the head of a policeman wife be but another supposedly comic interlude in this intend farce about mafia life ) but with the exception of a joke about your favourite mexican cigar ( which i imagine be an old joke for american who have be officially forbidden from buy anything cuban for the last 50 year ) i fail to spot anything of a comic nature and i do try . there be a lot of mafia cliché but cliché doesn not constitute humour in my book . be it a romantic comedy of sort . never . the character and their relationship be so completely incredible and shallow that they be on a par with ben afleck and jennifer lopez in gigli . be it a cleverly devise parody about the mafia . not in a million year . the plot be just pointlessly absurd rather than comically absurd and and it usually just have the feel of a really bad ( and cheap ) mafia movie . it feel more like a homage than a parody . with one dimensional character and little in the way of humour write for them and the actor be left do dodgy accent and pull face . well it isn not enough while even when the face be be pull by that master of the comic facial expression and jack nicholson ( repleat with puff up top lip . now be that meant to be a parody of brando pad jowl in the godfather . oh . who care . all i know be and it isn not funny ) . throw in some slow and plod direction ( this film drag on for 2 hour ) and some hopelessly daft and clichéd dialogue such a while you remember the camora . well be far big and we will track you down wherever you go and and clichéd mannerism and you will be reach for that fast forward button before you can say capiche . prizzi honor be far from be huston masterpiece and be rather a very poor last work . it definitely one work in the great director canon that should be give a concrete overcoat and toss into the hudson river .