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Don't read if you've not yet seen this crap.This movie collapses very quickly into parody. A child witnesses the brutal slaying of both his mother and his brother...and grieves no more so than if he had misplaced his baseball mitt. Same for the protagonist, Tom Hanks. One would think a guy who went off to kill half the mob army in America would have had a deep well of sorrow; nope. About a thimble full, or so it is portrayed.
Little sorrow then, for Hank, but manly rage in spades.
The second major problem, a second fatal one, is the insistence of portraying a vicious murderer as a good guy. I know, this is Tom, but it is immoral to show a cold-blooded killer as if he had no other pathological basis for his actions except...loyalty. The true pity is that two of our finest actors are so wasted. The tragedy is that Newman obviously doesn't have many more roles left in the tank.
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It's also a rather odd touch that a mafia hit man has wife and two kids and a house in the suburbs.
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