A kiddie gangster movie that appears to have been cast by the Ford Modeling Agency, dressed by the editors of GQ, and written by the marketing department of some cheesy brokerage house currently under investigation.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2023

Mobsters is of overwhelming violence, but also of insinuated elegance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 25, 2023

To say that production designer Richard Sylbert, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick and cinematographer Lajos Koltai give the settings a handsome, authentic look is like saying that the Titanic had nice chandeliers.

| Jul 25, 2014

It is extraordinary that, with gangster-era America providing such a natural source of drama, director Michael Karbelnikoff should turn gritty reality into such an empty tale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2014

Although things like character development are sometimes lost in the crossfire, the lead actors have enough charm to sustain the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2014

It's an excuse for the latest crop of media-spawned personalities -- the male equivalent of starlets -- to invade the heavy-duty genre of the gangster film. They don't come up to Cagney's spats.

Full Review | May 20, 2014

Mobsters is a bloody little fairy tale that makes good guys out of Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. According to the film, a largely plodding affair, they were just four kids who liked to kill people once in a while.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2013

Mobsters looks like it was made by people who have seen too many gangster films for people who haven't seen any. There isn't a breath of life in the filmmaking.

| May 21, 2013

Slater and Dempsey bring to the film whatever shallow depth Mobsters occasionally exhibits.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

The virtue of GoodFellas was that it took the glamor out of mob sagas, and it's going to take a picture a lot better than Mobsters to put it back in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

In an attempt to find the origins of infamous gangsters Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello and Benny "Bugsy" Siegel, Karbelnikoff has rendered lame caricatures instead of meaty characters.

| May 21, 2013

A potboiler in the quick-and-dirty tradition of the B movies of the '30s, it may not win any Oscars or garner rave reviews, but it's consistently entertaining, nevertheless.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2013

A hollow concept gussied up with a few big names, a pretty set and some fancy clothes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2013

Despite competent production, despite-or perhaps because of-a high and inventively mutilated body count, the film is ultimately boring.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2013

It feels like a history lesson from a particularly inept substitute teacher, hitting only a few highlights before it returns to a flat read of gangster specifics.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 26, 2011

One of the most fogettable theatrical releases of 1991.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2011

High concept, sleek stylishness, low content.

| Jan 31, 2011

The seemingly can't-miss premise of teen-heartthrob gangsters gets lost in self-important direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2007

A noisy, silly, rather immature film.

| Feb 9, 2006