MOB TOWN Review: A Lean, Redemptive Potboiler Crime Drama
Actor and filmmaker Danny A. Abeckaser follows up his 2018 directorial debut on First We Take Brooklyn, with a ripped-from-the-headlines gangster tale of retribution and redemption in Saban Films’ upcoming release, Mob Town. A late evening traffic stop and a subsequent habeus corpus order offset the events of one Ed Croswell (David Arquette), a suburban State Trooper in Apalachin, diminished to desk duty in the wake of the Mafia’s rise and its courrupt auspices. Ten years after exile in Italy, mob boss Vito Genovese (Robert Davi) is back in the U.S. to claim his seat at the throne, leading to the murder of boss Albert Anastasia and attempted murder of Frank Costello. The incidents ensue a treacherous, maverick investigation of the American mafia by Croswell, with his attention now turned to the goings-on of mob associated Joe Barbara (Abeckaser), whose grand-scale mansion in Apalachin, is about to become the Mecca […]
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