Johnny (John K. Fiore) is a hitman for the mob. He is also a married
man, and it was originally not all that well-received that he married
Angie (Kathleen Redden), daughter of a rival mob boss - but sowly, the men
of the mob Johnny works for warm up to his wife ... and there's the rub,
as Johnny is jealous, maybe pathologically so, so he literally beats it
out of Angie who she's screwing with ... and tends to kill and bury those
who do at a local playground. And even if the men don't confess, it's
enough if they talk about her cooking skills for Johnny to lose it. But
he's an expert hitman, so he knows how to hide all the clues leading to
him - and above that, who would suspect him of all people, right? But of
course, playing with the lifes of others is always a gamble one might lose
oneself in the end, right?
Above all else, One by One is a testament to clever
storytelling: It seems that every minute of the film's less than 13 the
narrative is taking a different direction, and even if in retrospect some
of the plottwists seem only half as surprising as they were while
watching, there's no way one can really predict the course the story will
take. Now add to that a directorial effort that quite clearly puts the
story first, and a more than competent cast, and you've got a pretty good
unusual genre film.
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