7/10
A comment as good as I can write
14 February 2009
I liked the movie, I think it was well written, well performed and overall well done...I liked it, but there are issues to be dealt with.

Maybe I have the issues, maybe it's just me...

However...

in New York, when the shootings are taking place, nobody calls the cops while the two girls are being killed in the hallway.

in New York - at a vacant lot (I assume where every other gangster has to be killed when they get killed) the guy gets shot up in front of a car yet every bullet hits the person and nobody misses a single shot and hits the car.

in New Jersey OR Conneticut - wherever the family lives now, teen son has to pump out the rap music like every other gangster movie made...it's not bad enough that he drives a bad ass car and dresses like every other O.G. who lives, no he has to blast the car radio with rap, then when he leaves his car, he has to hit another bunch of rap tunes in his headphones...the guy just can't get that crap out of his ears.

Move to the New Jersey house when they woman and man are scoping out the house looking to kill anybody inside...the girlfriend has to scream as they are hiding under the stairwell.

I would only assume if somebody is coming at you with an arsenal of weaponry, that you would shut your mouth and keep a low profile as possible, but her logic is to scream and draw attention...OK...I guess. She's not the brightest bulb in the box, but hey...

Then...when the two hit men come back to the house...the entire living room is shot to hell and the floor upstairs as well...however there is no intense police work or search or interrogation or investigative work done.

Wow...and the hit men have no skills either.

Now, I no longer live in the USA, but I can only assume that if you live in the States, own a gun or two and your job is to kill people that you would have some sort of skill and ability to actually do it. Not only that, but they have to draw so much attention while doing there job...secrecy is key guys.

You wanna off somebody? You do it quietly, avoid the public as much as possible and in a fashion where you don't get remembered for any reason, so that you can walk away with little worry.

Not only that, but they must have magic bullets - because when they are shooting upwards into a second floor, the bullets magically bunch off the broken window and head back down into a closet doorway instead of embedding themselves into the ceiling or upper wall...

I guess the hit men do have special skills after all.

Ah, the ending...what could be said....

I won't comment any further, I might give away a few flaws.
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