How bad is it? It's the worst gangster movie.
Should you see it? Yes.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Saturday, April 19, 2014
The Executioner (1979)
aka Massacre Mafia Style
How bad is it? It's the worst gangster movie.
Should you see it? Yes.
Dominic Miceli, who has appeared on this blog as Duke Mitchell in "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla," made his own film decades later. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in this, a remake of sorts of "The Godfather." Apparently, being of Italian descent and being from Brooklyn doesn't qualify one to make a gangster movie, as Miceli made a truly preposterous film. In it, he has long monologues that include every possible stereotype - he even mentions organ grinders with monkeys - and he sings songs. He didn't give himself the role of the Don, though, that he gave to an equally bad actor named Ludovico Dodo. The fight scenes are pathetic, but the action carries the film along briskly. The one thing this film has that "The Godfather" doesn't is that it admits that there are black people in New York (there, I said something nice, even if it disparages a great film).
How bad is it? It's the worst gangster movie.
Should you see it? Yes.
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