Chicago Overcoat should of stayed where it belongs, the film is ripped with clichés and concepts mashed into a mob film although it isn't much of a terrible film to watch. The film tries to convey film noir with voice over narration, a gritty and dark world mashed with the mafia- setting and it's quite annoying considering this film was released three years ago. It attempts to convey so much of that set period even though its setting is in modern times.
The film is ripped with clichés and overused concepts that maybe not exaggerated to a point but it's evident that the director wants to derive other classic films into his; first of all, the main character played by Frank Vincent is a old hit-man, Lou Marazano working for the mafia who XXX days before retirement and even at the start, it was implied that. Plus there is a rigid, no-nonsense, hard-boiled detective, Ralph Maloney (Danny Goldring) who's investigating a murder by Lou who "doesn't play by the rules" and it just felt like Nick Nolte's character from 48 Hrs plus a plethora of other detective films. It just felt contrived that they would go through lengths to make it a noir film and released it as unique.
What even disappoints me is the dialogue, it felt cheesy to the point that they felt to conceal the cheesiest and I find the characters' interaction throughout the film, laughable. One huge example is when the detective is interrogating Vincent's character, that scene was so pointless and irritating and the detective just came out as a chicken- s*** himself. I mean, he just constantly insults the main character due to his nature of sending flowers to the person that he killed and kept constantly asking the same question to him; be that of a chicken-s*** or f****t.
What I found even baffling is he says that again in the end and it clearly shows that the writers of this film just lazily written this character to be no nonsense old cop that "doesn't play by the rules." I really like this detective at first but the writers seems to kill off this character with less impact to this storyline. And Vincent does not redeem any qualities as his character, he does play the mafia-so character well like in The Sopranos but with the bad dialogue, he is just a walking cliché of his own. I mean, he plays a stereotypical mobster and at one point wears black trench-coat attire and uses a freaking tommy gun near the end and the poster shot for the movie just felt like walking into a trap.
There isn't much to the storyline, it just felt like a poor man's Sopranos with Phil Leotardo and Artie's wife in it as well. There are other actors as well specifically Armand from Gotti who plays the mafia boss and dozens of decent performances that I found not really lacking compared to the main characters of this film. It's not that much of a terrible film that of which I did not shut it off but the writing and dialogue plus the clichés mashed into this thing came into decent and bad experience.
The film is ripped with clichés and overused concepts that maybe not exaggerated to a point but it's evident that the director wants to derive other classic films into his; first of all, the main character played by Frank Vincent is a old hit-man, Lou Marazano working for the mafia who XXX days before retirement and even at the start, it was implied that. Plus there is a rigid, no-nonsense, hard-boiled detective, Ralph Maloney (Danny Goldring) who's investigating a murder by Lou who "doesn't play by the rules" and it just felt like Nick Nolte's character from 48 Hrs plus a plethora of other detective films. It just felt contrived that they would go through lengths to make it a noir film and released it as unique.
What even disappoints me is the dialogue, it felt cheesy to the point that they felt to conceal the cheesiest and I find the characters' interaction throughout the film, laughable. One huge example is when the detective is interrogating Vincent's character, that scene was so pointless and irritating and the detective just came out as a chicken- s*** himself. I mean, he just constantly insults the main character due to his nature of sending flowers to the person that he killed and kept constantly asking the same question to him; be that of a chicken-s*** or f****t.
What I found even baffling is he says that again in the end and it clearly shows that the writers of this film just lazily written this character to be no nonsense old cop that "doesn't play by the rules." I really like this detective at first but the writers seems to kill off this character with less impact to this storyline. And Vincent does not redeem any qualities as his character, he does play the mafia-so character well like in The Sopranos but with the bad dialogue, he is just a walking cliché of his own. I mean, he plays a stereotypical mobster and at one point wears black trench-coat attire and uses a freaking tommy gun near the end and the poster shot for the movie just felt like walking into a trap.
There isn't much to the storyline, it just felt like a poor man's Sopranos with Phil Leotardo and Artie's wife in it as well. There are other actors as well specifically Armand from Gotti who plays the mafia boss and dozens of decent performances that I found not really lacking compared to the main characters of this film. It's not that much of a terrible film that of which I did not shut it off but the writing and dialogue plus the clichés mashed into this thing came into decent and bad experience.