An unconvincing crime tale from the streaming giant sees the Oscar winner in murky territory taking a shallow, tourist-friendly view of JapanBlood is thicker than water, and as pulp fiction would have it, that viscosity is never denser than in the bustling underground of organized crime.
They don’t call it a capital-f Family for nothing; trust is the only currency with any worth among gang types, and the type of alpha-male mentality lending itself to mob life favors members of its own pack.
In Goodfellas, Henry Hill’s half-Irish lineage prevents him from ever graduating to a full-fledged “made man” in the mafia to which he pledges himself, no matter how hard he tries.
(Not that pure Italian blood can save Tommy DeVito from the doom awaiting him.)Related: Mute review – Duncan Jones’s sci-fi thriller is a Netflix disaster
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