Storyline
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
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Harvey Keitel, AnnaSophia Robb, Jay Giannone, Minka Kelly, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Shane McRae, James Plannette, Joe Knezevich, Sam Worthington, Danny A. Abeckaser, Wass Stevens, Alon Aboutboul, James Moses Black, Pascal Yen-Pfister, Joel Michaely, John Magaro, Emily Marie Palmer, Lee Broda, Demi Castro, Rudy Eisenzopf, David James Elliott, Robert Walker Branchaud, Dodge Prince, Claudio Bellante, Jim E Chandler, Ekaterina Baker, Dylan Flashner, David Cade, Jackie Cruz, Steve Alderfer, Stacey Hinnen, Vincent Minutella, John Branch, Lowrey Brown, Damien Chinappi, Melissa Oulton Haas, Ron Fallica, Chase Levy, James Devoti
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Reviews
63
Lansky loses steam every time the focus is on somewhere other than Lansky.
50
Never as giddily awful as Gotti, this movie suffers more from a case of what film critic Andrew Sarris called “Strained Seriousness.” Except the ostensible seriousness here never runs particularly deep. Lansky is for Keitel completists only.
50
Keitel . . . infuses his performance here with more than enough lion-in-winter gravitas to dominate every moment he is on screen, and quite a few when he isn’t, which in turn is sufficient to propel Lansky through stretches when the passing of time is felt, and the budgetary limitations are obvious.
40
Writer-director Rockaway (“The Abandoned”) hits all the major bullet points in the gangster’s life but ignores almost all the connective tissue that would make this outline of intriguing anecdotes really come alive.
38
The mob movie tropes and cliches end up being the only memorable moments in Lansky, material so overfamiliar we can finish the lines before the actors do.
