‘Mob Land’ Invades a Small Town with John Travolta and Stephen Dorff

Mob Land

Rating: 8/10

Director: Nicholas Maggio

Writers: Nicholas Maggio and Rob Healy

Style: Action, Crime, Thriller

Time: 1 hour 51 minutes

Review by Mike Szymanski

Stephen Dorff as the bad guy you want to avoid

It’s tough to find a good movie to just sit back and relax and watch that reflects real Americana. This one does.

I truly enjoyed this noir-ish cowboy movie mixing superstars like John Travolta and Stephen Dorff with relative unknowns who can hold their own.

Small indie movies is where some big stars can shine without too many restrictions or stereotypes of their previous work. Take Travolta in “Lonely Hearts” or “A Love Song for Bobby Long.” Of course, there will always be “Pulp Fiction,” “Grease” and “Saturday Night Fever,” but Travolta does shine in small movies like this where they shot the movie in 11 days for $750,000 in rural Alabama and Georgia.

And take Dorff, whose career I’ve written about and interviewed him since his first film “Power of One” in 1992 and…