a great gangster flick and with brilliant performance by well know actor with great action scene . well and not this one . it rather amaze to see such a wide cast of well know actor and that have many good movie in their filmographies in such a movie and without doubt this may be one of the bad they could possibly appear in . first of all and the plot be a you would expect it from your average gangster biography and nothing new and nothing fancy in it . the way it be told make the movie look a lot long than it be ( when i think the two hour should be almost over and i be quite surprised that only 45 minute have pass ) . the action scene look a lot like those from 80ies tv series the a team and for example . it just that in the 80ies ( esp . with the a team ) those scene be far more sophisticated than those in el padrino . it especially fun to see the guy point their gun in the air and still hit something ( not to talk about people that take cover behind car door which later look like they have be shoot through ) . the act fit quite nicely to the action . either you get the same reaction to everything that happen ( dolph lundgren style ) and or it so overact that you may think it a parody ( but unfortunately it not ) . my advise be to stay away from this movie and any other gangster movie be good than this one .