Una vita tranquilla

For a crime drama this movie is pretty uneventful and not very dramatic. It features Toni Servillo as Rosario/Antonio, a reformed assassin linked to the Camorra who escaped to Germany and rebuilt his life as a restaurant owner and family man (German wife, one son).

In the synopsis he's mentioned as having killed 32 people (???), but this number is never mentioned in the movie. However, Rosario does confess to having been an assassin to the dying priest of his German congregation.

Rosario's quiet life is shattered by the arrival of his older son Diego with an accomplice, both of them following Rosario's path in the criminal career. The dialogue in the movie is sparse and the parts in dialect nearly incomprehensible without subtitles.

Servillo is constantly praised as a good actor, but for me he is expressionless and all his performances are very similar. In this movie again, he plays a hardened man of a few words, whose only emotion is mild contempt. Could have been a better movie with a different lead and better dialogue.