This Thing of Ours

Very good film. While the video quality isn’t the best, the story is great, takes many different turns and twists, and always makes the viewer uncertain on what’s about to occur. Very thrilling.

Great gangster movie 😎

Frank Vincent from my two favorites GoodFellas and Casino is in this as caporegime Danny Santini who has a hot temper and nephew Nicholas Santini(Danny Provenzano) who wants to be in The Mob. Others from Goodfellas and Casino include Joseph Rigano as caporegime Joe, Vinny Vella as soldier Carmine, daniel P. conte as soldier Jimmy S,. and Vincent Pastore as Associate Skippy. i also give credit to jmaes Caan as Underboss Jimmy "The Con" or "TheNoc", Tony Ray Rossi as buisnessman Anthony Russo, and Michael DelGaizo as caporegime Patsy DeGrazio. if you like GoodFellas and Casino, then buy it!

This is by far the worst mafia movie ever made! Self-indulgent, an awful plot and an absolute waste of time and money. Any of the reviewers who gave this a good review have obviously no idea what makes a good mafia movie. lMy friends watched this and felt the same way. What was James Caan thinking. While the actors (most of them) I like from other films and t.v. shows including "The Sopranos", they must have been temporarily crazy when they appeared in this drivel. Frank Vincent especially is a big disappointment both as an executive producer and as an actor. He normally is very good in films and was great in "The Sopranos" as was Vincent Pastore.

I believe a quote from seven psychopaths by Christopher walken sums this movie up best. "It's got layers, You know?" "It's got... It's got layers."This thing of "OURS" was written specifically for a certain audience. Those that understand the traditions of the Sicilian mafia as portrayed in film. The story has two versions. One that is theirs being everyone who isn't in on it, and one for those who are that is Ours. Even the title hints at the subtext of the story. Every single mini story hints at it also. The words themselves along with the blood red Ours are exceptionally overt indicators of what this movie is about, but also a kind of nod to who this movie is written for. Me personally I find it clever, however it is also cliche and more than a bit tripe.It is an esoteric piece. That makes use of Allegory within an allegory to break the fourth wall and humor their target audiences sense of being part of the story. I can see why it was made into a movie. It expertly crafted to fit the theme of the entire movie, and the title. Both "theirs" and "ours" I doubt this movie was ever intended to make money, it has pet project written all over it.That being said. Knowing that. Knowing that played a role in the Camera work and filters, knowing it played a role in the sound. Doesn't change the fact it went beyond overt into the absurd for me. It was just trying to hard to be cute and clever, at the expense of the film itself.Thaddeus O'Sullivan the director likely had a lot to do with these decisions in Camera work and audio. The written script I am sure was amazing as it was. I don't think they needed to incorporate those other elements, if anything they detracted from an already obvious script for it's target audience. Look he is good director that really likes to add authenticity to pieces through the audio and Camera work. The problem is this piece didn't need that, the script itself already more than accomplished it. Thaddeus O'Sullivan is one of those directors like Quentin Tarantino who just has such a poweful style that often he can overpower the script. Usually to the movies benefit. But in this case it didn't work out.

I don't write reviews usually but this movie was so unexpectedly terrible. I was fully aware of the low reviews coming in to it but I decided to give it a shot anyway because of name recognition.The plot line was okay, but there was so many tangents the movie would go on it was hard to follow and enjoy. There was absolutely no character development so you never became connected with the story. They would randomly throw in characters for no reason. The acting was pretty bad. They must not have had more than a few dollars for special effects because there were certain scenes that were laughable.The only reason I'm giving this two stars is because of name recognition and it's not the worst piece of cinema I've ever seen.

i don't know why some people gave this movie bad reviews... i am a long time mafia movie fan that loves movies like goodfellas, casino and donnie brasco... and am also obsessed with the sopranos show. I thought this movie portrayed what the mafia is really like pretty well and their were several actors from sopranos in it that were pretty entertaining to watch.

Not a compelling story, but filled with Italian mafioso elements and great acting from the best of the best in Mafia Movies! Loved it! I tip my hat off to everyone who's worked on this movie.