Review of Lucky Luciano (1973) by Stephen C — 22 Nov 2010

Oh dear a potentialy intersting premise ruined by some terrible dubbing and a plot which cant really focus on its subject.

Francesco Rosi has made some interesting films but this film becomes so boring that you really wonder what the point of the whole exercise was.

Volonte makes a great Luciano but other actors feel shoe horned in most noatbly Rod Steiger as a low level mobster and Edmond O Brien who gives a speech and then dissapears into the muddy narrative.

There are some moments of excitement at the start but by the end I was throughly confused and annoyed that an idea has been so badly squandered as it has been here.

A shame then but the film deserves concrete boots all they way down the line , A mess.