Hollywood goodfella: 100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Prophet, #44

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Prophet, #44 Dec 27th 2012, 06:07 Tahar Rahim as Malik, Niels Arestrup as Cesar Luciani (2009–R) By George Anastasia, Glen Macnow We've seen this story before. The reluctant nice guy gets pulled into working for the mob and grows into a cunning, ruthless leader of organized crime. It was Michael Corleone in The Godfather and Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II. And we've seen this story before. Prison is a Darwinian society where brutal attacks are necessary for survival. Think Bad Boys. Or American Me. Or even The Shawshank Redemption. A Prophet, a French movie nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2010, is not particularly original. It combines those two plotlines in presenting an inside look at the Corsican gangs operating in Gallic prisons. It just happens to tell those stories very well. As a prison movie, it would rank in our all-time Top 10. As a gangster movie, not as high, but we do heartily recommend it. Read Rest  Here on California literary review   Media files: af11 Tahar Rahim as Malik, Niels Arestrup as Cesar Luciani (2009–R)

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