Mob Town

In "Mob Town," the cast's definitely got the goods, but the writing and direction consistently fail to seal the deal.

Plays like a mediocre B-movie that inexplicably got lost for decades.

Clumsy in every respect, it's an offer even die-hard genre fans will find easy to refuse.

Mobtown lives in a space of mediocrity, never too horrible or uninteresting to turn off and never good enough for you to be happy to be watching.

A quick Google search will provide more historical insight than the screenplay, which is hampered by wooden dialogue and narrative clichés. Worse, it looks as cheap as it sounds.

I can't really recommend Mob Town since it doesn't really live up to the promise of its premise. However, if you are in the mood for a film of this type and you have already watched The Irishman a couple of times, I suppose you could do worse.

The most frustrating aspect is the film's final act. The movie took its time mounting Croswell's case only to rush the finale.

So much can be said about Mob Town and none of it is good.

Make it a comedy, make it about the catering, make it more an "Analyze This" sort of mob movie, then you've got something.