Paul Vitti is one of New York's most powerful gangsters. Just as his time comes to take over his crime family, he finds himself anxious and unable to sleep. He asks Jelly. Ben begins to explore Paul's psyche. Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune's chief movie critic, has replaced Gene Siskel, who passed away Feb. 20.
Laughs are laughs.
Never second guess a good time. Don't get technical. That's what my critical psyche is telling me. But there are little chinks in its comic armor, just as there are neuroses boiling around under the Cosa Nostra cool of De Niro's twitchy Paul Vitti. And instead, he shakes.