hollywood have turn the mafia in to a production line of output range from the banal to the excellent and despite some good acting and a reasonable script ( much of which be for a change true . ) this home entertainment effort have to fall slap bang in the middle . the script be not only obvious ( all of the checklist box end up be tick ) and but spend a lot of time try to create a pastiche of the best of other people work . the godfather be the most obvious and but there be other reference too . i would not bother name them . nevertheless it be a good taste borrower . the producer seem to set a quota for gunshot and murder ( one at least every twenty minute . ) and the end be weak and so what . i be tell there be various version of this production so that maybe that be just the version i have see . gangster do not make money they take money . usually by fear . some seem more in to the murder and mayhem side of the business than make money . they be the one that be the first to go ( in real life and here ) . you can not make money with a gun in your hand say charlie lucky luciano at one stage . one of the smarter gangster and although all thing be relative . he be a skilled white slave trader and a drug dealer before be bundle home to italy . the old school moustached pete be pick off by the new blood who want the power and the money for themselves and to break free of the straight jacket of italian or sicilian power ( rarely do business outside themselves ) . the young turk know they need to be ally with other group ( most notably the jew who know how to launder money ) and this be at least referenced and acknowledge . what isn not make so clear be that most immigrant group have their own mafia but most of them make their money and go legit . and why not . who want to die in jail . joseph bonanno be a ruthless man prepare to kill if need be and but not an unfair or stupid one . his story be tragic in that he could have make money in the over ground world and he show a special skill in avoid get kill . with a little bit of luck attach and naturally . despite the range of respectable name and three actor in the title role ( bruce ramsay and martin landau and tony nardi ) there isn not the charisma or the talent to bring u in and feel anything . we be merely passive observer in a life we be glad not to have lead . the people show here be bear in to a cruel world but their only mark be to make it crueler . if you can not get enough of the gangster genre that will be good than watch godfather 1 and 2 for the tenth time and it be even well a basic entertainment than the horrible misfire that be godfather 3 .