They forgot inflaction...

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2015)

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full of spoilers
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A dozen people died in this story because of a million dollar. As many reviewers already noticed, this film is inspired by noirs of the Forties. Actually during the WWII era a million dollar did make the difference if Eastern mob wanted to open agencies in LA: it is about 100 millions of 2010 (try the site measuringworth slash uscompare dot com)
Spending a million dollar in 2010 Eastern mob could buy ONE of the following:

a 2000sqft condo in Hollywood Bvd or

a couple of armored vehicles or

a 5200sqft pizzeria (just bare walls) in S Western Avenue...

It is quite poor as an investment, isn't it?
Besides all these market data, I could not understand the reason why the brilliant, murderous, smart driver is able to leave a trail of corpses behind him, even the notorious Nino and his innocent chauffeur, but goes and die totally armless to the last mortal rendez-vous! A guy smart as he proves to be during the first 90 minutes should AT LEAST have left the money to the poor widow! If the driver had done in this way the movie could have deserved an 8/10, but the last 3 minutes are totally not coherent with the first 90
6/10