Brought to the filmmakers’ attention by one Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, this yarn of a young man sucked back into his old neighbourhood by the ties that bind doesn’t have the ring of truth that we got with his own tale.
James Marsden struggles in the central role, Giovanni Ribisi does his best De Niro, and Brad Renfro shows restraint in what could have been a showboat role, but we’ve seen this before, and better.