Seraphion Review of Little New York

Little New York (2009)

The sub-story approach yet with crazily developed characters

[6/10 · 6 November 2014]

The story gives a fresh new take on the all so serious crime theme of the mobsters. Indeed, adding comedic aspects into such a theme is not really a new endeavor. But this time, instead of focusing on a character or a family in relationship towards other characters or families, the story approaches the theme as a multiple sub-stories of different focus characters weaved in altogether. What makes it nice is that those focus characters have their own unique brand of odds and quirks. The mob boss has the secret hobby of underwater breath holding, trying to break a world record. The septic cleaner man is somehow a dim wit, often unable to communicate his thought due to not getting the right words. Last, the deli butcher does the mob's dirty work in dispensing a dead body and loses his life goal after he wins his trifecta bet target for the last twenty years. The acting is quite a nice overall. Ethan Hawke portrayed the stupid character nice enough with adequate expressions. Seymour Cassel's is comparably the easiest among the three, but it has a bigger significance at the movie's end.