An average movie

When a movie is called ‘Wise Guys’ and it is directed by Brian De Palma, in my opinion , you are entitled to expect a great gangster feature, some kind of mix between ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Scarface’. Unfortunately, the whole thing was rather misleading and it was in fact a comedy and instead of dealing with some hard thugs, it was dealing with some losers working for the mob. So, those guys were pretty pathetic and even though Danny DeVito was basically born to play such characters, I can’t say I thought it was really funny. De Palma always had a rather patchy career, with some ups and many downs, and this flick definitely belongs to his more underwhelming movies. Fortunately, a year later, he would come up with ‘The Untouchables’, arguably one of his biggest success, financially and critically. I don’t know, maybe, I didn’t like it because I wasn’t expecting something else and, in fact, Roger Ebert thought it was actually pretty good. Anyway, to conclude, even though I have seen worse, I thought it was just an average comedy with a rather half-baked concept and it is not really worth a look, except if you are a die-hard fan of Brian De Palma’s work.

5/10