The Sicilian

Cool Classic Poster Right?...what a piece of crap this film is...first the cast is almost a joke...Chris Lambert as a Scottish speaking Sicilian?...John Turturro may look Italian but he sounds like a New Yorker of Jewish decent...the female lead is atrocious as an actress and American Dutchess?...The "Don" of Sicily is played by the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2 (you know the South African guy with the great English accent...yes that guy is a Sicilian mob boss).

Mike Cimino is one of my favorite directors...I am slowly watching his later work post-Heavens Gate...the film that so called took down the auteur status of American directors...well to me Heaven's Gate is a classic American Western...it's great...post Gate..Cimino took time off and then made Year of the Dragon...which I think is pretty awesome...well then what?...what happened?...why did he agree to make this Mario Puzo red headed step child to the Godfather?...why...Puzo kinda sucks...Puzo's book is ok,,the film is great because of Coppola and the great cast...why make this second rate movie from a B grade author?...because the studio had a need for a Godfather type film and had this Puzo crap sitting on the back burner...there must have been a lot of film left over...the jumps in story and plot are alarming and they must have trimmed this film like crazy...since Cimino had no final cut the film is crap...I can't blame Cimino unless he decided to cast this film...maybe it was totally meta...maybe by casting terrible actors he was commenting on how a terrible cast makes a terrible film and this film really wasn't about a stupid guy living in the mountains and wanting to steal money to give to the poor people who could care less about him...maybe it really was just about terrible acting and a terrible story...Cimino made this for a 1987 release..in 1990 he would make another bomb with Desperate Hours...that film has some real good scenes and good actors....I have one film left...his last film The Sunchaser...staring Woody Harrelson as a doctor (yeah right..believable) and Jon Seda ...recently from Treme...I'll let you know and then we can distill Cimino...as of right now the pizza is so much better then this film

Sicilian Pizza - Plus
Sicilian Film - Minus