There's a scene where several big old fat Italian mafia bosses try to escape the police while they're in a farm field. They all start running like a group of little rabbits on a hunting day to reach their cars. This brief moment of life, I must say, made me laugh quite a bit.
Otherwise, yeah, the film sorely lacks the touch that Scorsese would have brought to such a project, and it clearly aims to be in the same vein (Nicholas Pileggi on the script, Irwin Winkler as producer, Robert De Niro).
It can be a bit chaotic in the action and narration at times, but it always manages to land on its feet. And the film's fight scenes are truly excellent, just what you'd expect from Tsui Hark.
Every time the storyline of the 13-year-old girl around Friends came up in the movie and how she couldn't watch the series finale, I was thinking: You wouldn't have this problem if you had the series on DVD 😁. And well it's a Netflix movie, so that makes it even funnier for me... And then comes the last scene...
First time I've watched a work by Esmail and well he clearly knows how to use a camera. In terms of…
