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Pantolianos finest hour and Gangstermovies most underrated performance!


The role as Ceasar should have turned Joey into a star...I mean the range here. The directors are smart enough to delude us(not much screentime in the beginning) into thinking he´s just another henchman for the mob...but when the money dissapears,we see what Ceasar is capable of!!Talk about underestemating him.And even though the ladies set things in motion,once the suitcase opens it´s all about Ceasar...

It´s like a mix of Joe Pesci and a young Jack Nicholson watching this guy...from down right hilarious to scary and menacing,slowly losing his mind but not his intelligence or survivalinstinct. It´s a beautiful thing to see this criminally underrated actor show his true potential...one of the best gangsterportrayals I´ve seen,easily the most underrated. Besides a brilliant turn in Memento and his "Ceasar beyond psychotic" Ralphie in the Sopranos...not much happened. Instead we have to live in a world where Samuel L.Jackson,Orlando Bloom and Paul Walker are superstars and Joey Pants does...mostly crap. It´s a damn disgrace...you agree? Brilliant performance by Joe??

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