A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
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Thanks for the memories!
Beautiful, moving film.
A Disappointing Continuation
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Great! Another movie about life in Philadelphia that isn't shot in Philadelphia. Even better, the generally fine cast sounds like they're from Brooklyn. Is it so expensive to film in Philly that you have to go to Pittsburgh?For those who don't know, Phillly is, for the most part, flat as a pancake on a tilted table (excepting the Manayunk/Roxborough area) and the buses say SEPTA on the side. I mean, come on, you couldn't send a cameraman to the other side of the state for some B-roll footage?Pittsburgh is a great town, but it doesn't look anything like Philly.Other movies set in Philly not shot in Philly: Devil (shot, I believe, in Montreal) Baby Mama (New York) Next Day Air (Los Angeles)Seems that the Philadelphia Film Council is really falling down on the job. No surprise there.
The least the maker of the "Philly mob" movie could have done was made some of it in Philly!!! This movie was a joke! Guess they are from California, they have no idea what the Philadelphia area is about! This was a living disgrace and the maker should be ashamed of himself! It is a shame that people will actually think that Pittsburgh is Philly. The two cities are nothing alike. Not that there is anything wrong with Pittsburgh, it's just not Philly. The best part of this movie was James Marsden, yummy. I just think that the people of Philadelphia should have spoken up, this was horrific. And to be compared to Goodfellas is the biggest joke that I have heard in a very long time!!!
A decent story, good acting, but for a good number of people who have spent any time in Philly and/or Pittsburgh, ... you can't pull off calling Pittsburgh 'Philadelphia' (anymore then you can call Philadelphia 'Pittsburgh'). Both cities are great locations for movies... but just because they both happen to be in Pennsylvania, you can't interchange them -- geographically, architecturally they are distinctively unique (even if you leave the "Youse Guys" and the "Younse" accents out of it). Had South Philly's "Rocky" been filmed in Pittsburgh but pawned off as Philly it wouldn't be the classic it became, (nor conversely would the "Deer Hunter") it would have been ruined. I don't know how much better "10th & Wolf" would have been if the geography matched the story, but for me it would have been more believable.
Yes, over. Giavanni Ribisi "over"acts terribly. All the characters are "over"wrought." The dialogue is cliché-ridden and "over"written. There is an "over"abundance of "guest stars" like Val Kilmer (slumming in one quick scene) and Dennis Hopper (two scenes). To be fair, there are a couple of tense scenes and it was fun seeing rocker Tommy Lee mumbling his lines. But everyone is this movie is either a killer or a moron, resulting in a story in which there's really no one to root for. You too will be glad when this movie is "over."Rating: 4/10