hood doesn not deliver the good . this half bake mafia comedy boast a stellar cast and include joe mantegna and kevin pollack and joe pantoliano and jennifer tilly and and seymour cassel and along with a number of face familiar to those who watch crime movie and but it be truly a misfire if there ever be one . writer and director mark malone and best know for write dead of winter for bonnie and clyde director arthur penn and have pen up a pedestrian potboiler that have an ail but vengeful mob bos louie martinelli ( seymour cassel ) dispatch his son angelo ( joe mantegna of house of game ) to whack carmine dellarosa . it seem that a rival mob fire bomb one of pop warehouse ( in the opening scene ) and martinelli want payback . trouble be that nobody have a clue a to who carmine dellarosa be . in any other mob comedy and such a complication might be amuse and but here be just plain flat . angelo and a carload of wiseguys and include his best pal rudy ( kevin pollack of deterrence ) spend half of the time try to find out who carmine be . neither rudy nor angelo want to perform the hit and so they track down a crazy mob hit man charlie ( joe pantoliano of bad boy ) to do the dirty deed . before they can convince charlie to make the hit and they have to locate him and and charlie slutty wife mary ( jennifer tilly of bound ) reveal that he be lock up in a mental hospital . our misfit hero cruise out to the mental hospital and break charlie out . about half of the movie be over before they discover that carmine be a kid in short pant ( vincent berry ) who be bland and harmless . indeed and carmine have the only decent line in the movie . a our brainless bunch of hero wheel away from his house with him in the backseat to take care of business and carmine warn them that they need to get him home in time or his father will kill him . charlie try to ice the urchin but he can not . instead and he reconnects with his feeling and want to go back to the mental hospital so he can report the good news to his doctor . meanwhile and after charlie decide not to shoot carmine and the kid get his paw on the pistol and pop off several aimless round . angelo and he struggle over the automatic . the pistol slip out of their collective hand and hit the ground and go off and and blow a hole in rudy chest . now and keep in mind that rudy never want to shoot the kid in the first place and and angelo and he argue over the wrong headedness of the hit . so rudy wind up on the ground with a fatal wound and while angelo struggle to stop the bleeding . talk about a dull death scene . angelo be conflict himself because his father order the hit and angelo fear that dad will do him in if he doesn not execute order . there be a flashback subplot about angelo father teach him how to handle a gun that provide some insight into angelo reluctance to pack a gun . there be nothing remotely redeem about this depressing comedy with a downer of an end . thing get bad and and if you last through this 90 minute nonsense and you will see what i mean . the comedy be largely laugh less . good actor wallow in sketchy role that aren not even funny . perhaps director malone be try to do another comedy like the gang that couldn not shoot straight . if he be and he miss by a mile . big breast jennifer tilly show cleavage and snarl through a couple of scene with mantegna and but she doesn not do much of anything else . she the stereotypical slut who doesn not even get naked . a paycheck be the only way to explain the presence of such a talented cast and otherwise this picture be pathetic from start to finish . initially and i have hop that this might be a ransom of red chief knockoff where the kid drive the wiseguys nut and but no such luck here . of course and the big surprise be that they have to kill a kid and but it not the kind of a surprise that make you want to watch it up to it resolution . i actually buy this movie on a canadian dvd labelsevilleand it contain only the most basic special feature . if you hate preview that give away the plot and do not watch the trailer . if you ever meet joe mantegna and one of your first question should be why he help to produce this yawner . it be neither hilarious nor dramatic . there be no quotable line and and none of the character stand out a either interesting or sympathetic . the seville dvd present the movie in full frame with no subtitle or close captioning .