Nice scenery, and good acting but unrealistic

The scenes of Brighton Beach are great (I live here), and the acting is good too, but the way the Russians and the gangsters are portrayed in the movie is total bullsh!t. The way the gangsters were portrayed, as these idiots who run up and kill people and have shootouts in the day time, hide in sewers to listen to conversations, and take their father on belt parkway and makes him get on his knees (though he deserved it) and put a gun to his head is nonsense, and the conversations they had with each other were more hilarious, not serious. The way the family living was portrayed was mostly correct. My friend lives in the building in which Rubin lived with his father and dying mother on Brighton 5th. Those apartments are that grimy, I live in one of them:), I'll give the director credit for how he portrayed the living situations and the whole mood of things. But the situations with the gangsters, how low-grade they were portrayed to be along with that bullsh!t hole that Yoshi dumped everybody he killed along with his little brother into was a little far-fetched. Basically good acting, good portrayal of surroundings but the story and situations could have used more work and realism. I can see how someone who is not familiar with how things go down here, can like the movie, and how someone can also not like the movie. I see it from different angles and understand different peoples reactions to this movie.