Started out strong but lost momentum very quickly .
The movie starts out with the leader of a crime family getting snuffed out on a golf course by a hitman and we see his widow step up to take the reigns of his criminal empire with the help of her son but it soon becomes clear that she bit off more than she can chew and struggles to keep everything and everyone in line.
Though the cast is very strong but the plot unfortunately isn't. It's a very predictable story and its twist reveals its hand way too early in the film which makes the last act boring and it dragged really bad towards its unsatisfying end.
Something that bothered me though Not sure if they were tributing reservoir dogs or just ripping a huge part of it off completely but its all i could think about during some scenes.
Overall its a watchable film very solid in parts and the actors really do shine but it's no classic though and will be forgotten very quickly among all of the other of the U. K''s attempts to make the perfect gangster movie.
The Mother the Son the Rat and the Gun
2021
Action / Crime / Thriller
Plot summary
When a professional assassin kills powerful mafia boss Oleg, widowed Gertrude takes over as the new leader of the organisation along with their son, Max. As challenges pile up and Oleg's murder remains unsolved, Gertrude assembles a team to get to the bottom of the mystery. And, little by little, amid deception, greed, and violence, secrets come to light, and warm, bright-red blood follows. But family is above all. However, what happens if the enemy is everywhere? Whom can you trust when power is the ultimate aphrodisiac?
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started out strong
Good production, weak story
This is a crime family movie with very little atmosphere despite the excellent cast and acting. Way too much personal time unrelated to the thin, predictable plot meant a lot of fast-forwarding was necessary. Overall this is a pretty unrewarding film I wouldn't recommend, although it's on par with a lot of tv crime dramas and much better than any of the recent Bruce Willis or eric Roberts movies...
Journey not the destination (IMDb Top Reviewer)
A really, really strange combination of Godfather, Goodfellas, and I Remember Mama (1948). With truly astonishing acting and direction. But it never once comes together in a way that invites audience buy-in -- which is really why people watch movies in the first place. To get involved. To be entertained. The explanation, of course, is that this is an "auteur" indie where the writer and director are one and the same. To be fair, Phillip Staal, who is the man behind the camera, and also the writer behind the script, has already won a handful of awards for this film. To this reviewer, however, Mother-Son-Rat-Gun is more of a promise of much better things to come from Staal. The journey, not the destination.