In the biggest paint job of all, he opposes taking revenge against a motorist who accidentally killed his son. Armand Assante, as Gotti, is great. And so is William Forsythe, in the difficult role of Salvatore Gravano, the mob's Judas. The movie zips across two decades and two distinctly different eras in the Gambino family of Cosa Nostra. Watch carefully, or else you're going to miss something important.
Plot points turn on a dime.
Trying to tell too much, the movie sometimes doesn't tell enough. Rushing along, the movie offers only a hint, then only when Dellacroce dies, halfway through. The movie also fails to help us understand why Gotti is such a power in the Gambino family at such a young age. Careful viewers will notice a few annoying inconsistencies too. The Gotti crew is picked for a hit because it is not known in a certain part of town, yet in the same scene Gotti is ordered to take along a man from a crew in that part of town.