Review: `Gomorrah' a stripped-down look at mob

AP Online | February 26, 2009| | Copyright

Two cocky Italian teenagers run around their dilapidated Naples neighborhood, melodramatically riffing on "Scarface" lines to each other: "Now it has to be ours, the whole world. Miami, all of it."

They're certainly no more over-the-top than Al Pacino. But this is the closest director and co-writer Matteo Garrone comes to any sort of traditional, Hollywoodized depiction of mob life in "Gomorrah."

It's appropriate, though, that Brian De Palma's bloody epic is the source of inspiration for wannabe thugs Marco (Marco Macor) and Ciro (Ciro Petrone). ...

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