INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Brighton Rock (Unrated) Remake of the 1947 crime thriller based on Graham Greene's classic novel about a ruthless hoodlum (Sam Riley) who romances the gullible waitress (Rose Riseborough) scheduled to testify after witnessing him murder
a rival mobster (Sean Ellis).
He takes one of them (Bartha) hostage and tells the other three that their friend will be killed unless they kidnap and bring back
a rival mobster, Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong).
This is done by taking down rackets to draw out
rival mobsters.
Not exact matches
Synopsis: Assassin Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent
mobster, only to witness
rival hired gun Miguel Bain (Antonio Ba... [MORE]
Setting his sights on the music industry, Palmer enters a precarious business that has more than just temperamental musicians: Russian
mobsters,
rival producers and hit men are out to bring him down.
Frank is so drunk that he falls asleep during a job, causing a
rival, Irish
mobster (Dennis Farina) to get away.
The crew hits every demographic for today's all - embracive audience: the workaholic team leader (Josh Brolin), the wisecracking heartthrob (Ryan Gosling), the experienced old - timer (Robert Patrick), the soft - spoken Latino (Michael Pena), the switchblade - wielding black cop (Anthony Mackie) and the morally torn egghead (Giovanni Ribisi) who absurdly asks how they're any better than the
mobsters they're fighting (I'm not sure how bugging Cohen's living room remotely compares to Cohen having
rivals physically torn in half by two cars, but maybe that's just me).
All this changes when Conlon's son, Mike (Joel Kinnaman), witnesses Maguire's
mobster son, Danny, killing
rival gangsters.
EA has clearly taken some liberties with the plot of the
mobster masterpiece, with clan master Michael moving the player's character up the ranks to understudy Don, plotting and moving against
rival families in order to control all the rackets in Havana, Miami, and New York.