Married To The Mob
Film: Malavita (The Family)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer
Directed by: Luc Besson
Duration: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: * * 1 / 2
The film
has three big names associated with – Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer in
the acting department and Martin Scorsese as the producer. You would expect
something spectacular from this collaboration but unfortunately that is not to
be. Malavita aka The Family directed by Luc Besson turns out to be a very ordinary affair
and those three names could have well been substituted with some Tom, Dick and
Jane and that would have made little difference to film.
De Niro and
Pfeiffer play a couple that has moved with their family to France under
the witness protection program. They are the Manzonis, he was a gangster but
now they have a new name, Blake. She is bored of moving from one place to
another while he has discovered a new passion, to write his memoirs. Their kids
go to school and have the usual troubles - the son is bullied by other kids
while the daughter falls in love with a young man.
Meanwhile
the mob is looking for the gangster all over the world and the climax is very
predictable. Pfeiffer and De Niro are always a treat to watch but the film on
the whole, as very little going in its favor.
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