When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.... (Full plot summary below)
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When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
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| Film ThreatBradley GibsonLanksy is a workman-like film with decent production values, but Rockaway is not Scorcese or Coppola. There are no great faults to find with it, except one: fans of the genre have literally seen every element of it before. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperLansky loses steam every time the focus is on somewhere other than Lansky. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonKeitel . . . infuses his performance here with more than enough lion-in-winter gravitas to dominate every moment he is on screen, and quite a few when he isn’t, which in turn is sufficient to propel Lansky through stretches when the passing of time is felt, and the budgetary limitations are obvious. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNever as giddily awful as Gotti, this movie suffers more from a case of what film critic Andrew Sarris called “Strained Seriousness.” Except the ostensible seriousness here never runs particularly deep. Lansky is for Keitel completists only. |
| TheWrapWilliam BibbianiWriter-director Rockaway (“The Abandoned”) hits all the major bullet points in the gangster’s life but ignores almost all the connective tissue that would make this outline of intriguing anecdotes really come alive. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe mob movie tropes and cliches end up being the only memorable moments in Lansky, material so overfamiliar we can finish the lines before the actors do. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe heart of this movie, directed by Eytan Rockaway, is the relationship between the writer and his subject. So it’s dismaying when Lansky turns out to include flashbacks, with John Magaro (“First Cow”) playing a much flatter version of the mobster as a young man. |
| User ReviewRalfbergsI enjoyed the movie, was interesting watch and if you like Mafia movies this was good, maybe with less action than some but still good. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) A much spoken and little audiovisualized story. Not many directors are at the level of the best Michael Mann. |
