Men Of Respect (1991)

Best movie of this year hands down!

The Worst Film Ever

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Sadly MOR is a mafia pic, that falls under par, of other mafia greats we've come to love. The movie doesn't suffer totally. It had good intentions, and isn't like a lot of other movies. It stands alone, an admiring aspect here, but there are some painfully obvious flaws in a film that could of been better executed as well as explained. It's amateurism is expelled from the latter particularly, as the disjointed aspect is what really made it so. The actors deliver, the film doesn't, and Kathryn Borowitz is bloody sexy. Again this film has been inspired by the tragedy of Macbeth, again an underlying disappointment with that factor, in a film that had potential. Opening with a graphic massacre scene with Turturro and co taking out a few of his competition, surviving this, him and best mate, Farina, on the run, seek refuge, where Turturro's fortune is told, and it's not good. He's taken in by made man, Steiger and co, where he's initiated into their elite mob fraternity. With his beautiful wife harking onto him, to brazenly take out Steiger and co, he does, not really considering the hell that's gonna come raining down on him, where you somehow know (e.g. is seeing Scarface, Oz's Macbeth) he's pretty well sealing his fate, so you pretty know how this chapter will ensue. This film seemed to be an ambitious project, where the investors, whatever, got a bit too head of themselves, and just jumping in, where much more detail, and proper care should of given to the story structure. And at times, this film feels like it's jumps a scene, whatever, story seems patchy, rushed. I felt that particularly with that last scene, and the acute viewer will see a kind of sloppiness, in a film that really could of been something. I'm tempted to give this film a six, but it falls towards a 7, and here I kind of feeling I'm being a little generous, but somehow like the film's title, I kind of feel respectful, indebted to it. Still recommended for mafia lovers though.

I saw this movie for the first time last night on Encore. I missed the first few minutes of it but got into it quickly. To start, the cast in VERY impressive and each one, as I saw it, lived up to my expectations of what they would accomplish.Is this movie fast paced and full of excitement? I would have to say no, but if you filmed a movie version of "Macbeth", would it have you on the edge of your seat? Probably not and you might have a difficult time understanding just what the hell they were actually saying. Fantastic story, but you have to take your time with it, it not exactly an action drama is it? Some may feel its slow paced and flat. I could not disagree more vehemently. I found it well paced and with a cast like this one, who wants to rush anything? No, it's not everyone's cup of tea and some may compare it unfairly to "Richard the Third" with Ian McKellen (which was phenomenal AND in the original dialogue) but they're two very different movies. I'll just leave off by saying, if you have ANY interest in Shakespeare, give this a shot, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

This self-conscious adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' updates the stage play to an urban crime setting, largely as a vehicle for John Turturro, who gives an atypically overwrought performance in the title role. The film arrived late in what was, at the time, a cycle of big screen gangster dramas, giving it an uncomfortable sense of redundancy even without the blatant similarities to 'The Godfather' (the character of Macbeth is here named Michael, not without coincidence). Writer director William Reilly makes no effort to camouflage the source material, adding nothing new to either the original play or its adapted genre. Even worse, the film has little discernible pace or rhythm: it just sits on the screen like a cheap wax replica of a priceless heirloom.

I thought this movie was a great modernization of Shakespeare's Macbeth. I know I have not learned all that I can about Macbeth and Shakespeare but I do know that with what i have learned, this movie is a wonderful rendition. I have been studying Macbeth in my English II Honors class and we watched this movie and I was rather surprised at how many similarities there were to Macbeth. It was unbelievable. I understand so much more with this movie. It was like a Sparknote movie to Macbeth. I really enjoyed it. And as there were some differences between the two, I was still able to see the connection between both movie and play. I would definitely recommend this to others as a helping tool for Macbeth as it is hard at times to understand.