Knockaround Guys [2001]
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Actor: Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper
This movie is in the same vein as Suicide Kings. Young actors, all up and coming, in a gangster movie.
Barry Pepper is the son of a mafia underboss who can’t seem to shake the reputation of his father [Dennis Hopper] as he tries to make a normal, civilian life for himself. When young, he was tested by his father’s right hand man [John Malkovich] to see if he had the balls to shoot someone. He didn’t, and was thus, never really let in to la Familia.
When, after being rejected for a job-interview because of his father’s reputation, he tries to get back into his father’s business, he gets a shot at an important job of transporting half a million dollars in commission money, meant for the higher capos.
The money gets lost in transit and ends up in the hands of a sherrif of a small town in Montana. Real back-water stuff. So he, together with his three mafia friends roll into town trying to get the money back. They’re off course way out of place, and try to deal with things in a way they would deal with things in Brooklyn.
This movie shows substandard acting from John Malkovich and Barry Pepper, but Seth Green and Vin Diesel really shine. Especially the latter is depicted really well.
