The Alto Knights

More interesting in the context of Robert De Niro’s filmography than it is necessarily as a standalone picture.

I don't know why this movie exists. It breathes no new new life into the mobster movie genre at all and will only serve to remind you of better movies.

Broadly speaking, I like this as a piece of classical gangster theater.

It's solid. Seen it all before, but I kind of enjoy this gangster fare.

Anything that comes across like a deleted scene from Scorsese provides welcome jolts of laughter to the otherwise dry proceedings.

It’s not that the film is bad, it’s just strained. It’s trying to be weighty when it should’ve just been more entertaining.

The prevailing feeling throughout The Alto Knights‘ is that it should’ve been made 20 years ago. Too much of the film feels like a replay of Martin Scorsese‘s greatest hits.

The Alto Knights is a decent film. When it relies on the classic elements of gangster cinema,...it offers a compelling story, and although smaller in scale, it's no less interesting than Scorsese's epics. [Full review in Spanish]

There are moments of brilliance, and De Niro remains the undisputed king of gangster cinema, but the film never becomes more than the sum of its parts.

Robert De Niro returns to mafia stories with Barry Levinson, in a dual performance that is intended to be the main attraction of the production. [Full Review in Spanish]