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Nicky (Danny Provenzano) has been groomed to be a mobster since a very early age, what with his uncle being Danny Santini (Frank Vincent), and he has proven time and again he's up for the task. That said, by the early 2000s the world was gradually going online and the mob business model of old, with all its traditions and so-called codes of honour, was going out of style - and of course, Nicky couldn't fail but notice that. Fortunately, one of his friends from college, Austin (Louis Vanaria) is a computer genius with just enough criminal energy to not look away when it comes to stealing a small fortune with minimum risk. So when gets the chance to buy a super-chip that will enable him to siphon small amounts of saving accounts without anybody noticing - something that will amount to about 2 billion Dollar in total -, he goes to his mobster friend Nicky for funding, Nicky to his uncle Danny, and Danny to the big capos, who think these kids are crazy with their talk about computers - but are not immune to the sound of $2 billion. And Austin was right of course, the crime as such is ultra-low risk. But then other families find out about Nicky and Austin's free money machine and want their hands on it as well - and before you know it, what was supposed to be a clean and state of the art crime becomes a very old-fashioned and bloody mob war ...

Now by the early 2000s, gangster cinema has been on one side infested by Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie clones who were desperate to put a post-modern spin on things, on the other it had become revisionist and over-thinking. And sure, all of these directions produced some pretty awesome films, but yet This Thing of Ours feels like a breath of fresh air between all of this, for simply not following one fad or the other but sticking to the spirit of the Godfather movies and Martin Scorsese's gangster epics - which is of course also mirrored in the casting. And even if the budget did not allow for excesses of afore-mentioned movies, this is still carried by a storyline that's both epic and tight at the same time. And add to this a direction that's light-footed and hard-hitting at the same time, and a cast heavy on character actors that not only act but also look their parts, and you end up with pretty awesome genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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