The new movie "The Alto Knights", directed by Barry Levinson, with Robert Robert De Niro, playing two roles as mob bosses Frank Costello, and Vito Genovese - plays more like a documentary not told sequentially with no noticeable story.
This low-rated film reminds me of last year's "Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1" (it now looks like Chapter 2 will never be released), written and directed by Kevin Costner which had some of the same major flaws. Scenes, storylines, and characters are injected without regard to the previous scene, providing no measurable level of continuity, fundamental to the understanding and enjoyment of the audience. Instead, De Niro, as Frank Costello, talks to the audience at different parts of the story, trying to educate a confused audience about some event in the past. After about 5 scenes like this, this movie starts to fail with everyone watching hoping the two hours will be over soon.
Considering a great accomplished director like Barry Levinson and arguably one of the greatest actors of all time, it is surprising that a movie this bad could have been written, directed, produced and released.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this movie are a correctly low 38% and I agree with this low number and do not recommend this film.
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