Mafia Wars

You should always grade on a curve with movies. Not everything should be graded based on The Godfather or Citizen Kane. Go in with the right expectations on why you picked the movie. With Maria Wars, I expected an 80s/90s style action thriller, with some colorful characters with a nice backdrop. I liked Terry and Griff, both recognizable to Millennial audiences from Smallville and OC. It hit most of its marks on Action, Characters, and Rome was great scenery. Where it lost me was it trying to be too clever. Everyone is a double agent, everyone has a double cross, the drugs are always somewhere else. It got to the point where it didn't make sense, by the end, it twisted itself into a convoluted mess. I still don't know how Griff's brother got out lol. But, at no point was I bored or wanted to turn it off, and it went by fast, which is saying something. A 7/10 is what my scale is for something good, and this just missed the mark. But, for something new and different on Amazon Prime, I wouldn't say I was disappointed in time spent watching "Mafia Wars".