Depp & Pacino Save This ....Average Movie

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2012)

Donnie Brascoe is one of those movies that should have been much better than it turned out to be. The back up players in the Mob were not in the least convincing ..particularly Michael Madsen. Al Pacino and Johnny Depp do enough to make this an..OK..film. Mike Newells direction needed to be more taught...and crisp. If one of the definitions of a great movie is...you can watch it multiple times....then this is far from being a great movie. The story itself is handled sloppily and the use of the word "forgetaboutit" (in an average script) becomes tedious. It is...of course ...saved by the two leads. But even above average acting by the two "stars" is simply not enough.