Jerry and Tom

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Steve D 02/10/2023 Too dark to be remotely funny. See more l g 07/12/2019 Stumbled onto this in Xfinity On Demand. Worth one watch for sure. Younger people won't care for it, unless you're maybe somehow involved in the film industry. See more 01/01/2015 The murder victim cameos were the best part... Danson and William Macy stole the screen until they died. See more jesse o 07/19/2014 I think this movie, while not great, certainly blends Tarantino-style dialogue with Scorsese execution. In many ways this is like watching a more modest and smaller version of GoodFellas. Neither Jerry or Tom are really that far up on the mob ladder, they're really two-bit hitmen. The story is deceptively simple, Tom brings Jerry into their business. At first Jerry is apprehensive and nervous about doing a job. As time progresses, Jerry becomes a little too reckless and cocky for his own good, so Tom has to rein him in, to keep both Jerry and himself safe and out of trouble. Simple enough. Problem is the film feels more like a series of skits than a full-fledged narrative. Yes, Jerry does go through a change and his change from nervous rookie to ruthless killer is the thread that's holding all of this together, but it's not great. It's just barely a narrative. Thankfully, the dialogue, which feels like something out of a Tarantino movie, is very good and Sam Rockwell and Joe Mantegna have great chemistry together. That certainly makes the film's structure a little more tolerable and I do find the script really well-written, with plenty of clever lines, but I don't think that the movie is probably as fully realized as it could've been. I can imagine everybody raving after reading this script for the first time. Maybe not raving vociferously, but definitely feeling very positive about it. It doesn't come that way on screen unfortunately. I don't blame the script, I don't even blame the treatment itself, but it just didn't come together as well as it could've. Still this was a good, solid movie with great dialogue and good acting, these elements just don't come together to make a great film. See more Frances H 02/22/2014 Great script and cast make a rather different kind of mob hit man movie with lots of tongue in cheek. I'm not a fan of gangster movies, but this one was very entertaining and full of irony. See more 01/21/2013 Wholly overlooked black comedy about a veteran hitman showing the new guy the ropes, Jerry and Tom is an exercise in masterful dialogue directed by a newbie with vision. It may be too talky for some, but for the cinephile it's one of those rare treats that you find while snooping around netflix too long. Mantegna and Rockwell are a strangely charismatic team. See more Read all reviews

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