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These Wise Guys in ‘Jersey Bred’ Don’t Think Change is Funny, But it is
“Jersey Bred”
Rating: 8/10
Writer and Director: Greg Russo
Style: Crime/ Action / Drama
Time: 1 hour 31 minutes
Review by Mike Szymanski
Change in the mob game isn’t always a good thing.
When the gangsters like those from the days of “The Godfather” (and all the violence involved) get mixed up in online gambling and crypto-currency, some people can’t give up their old ways. They don’t understand the new changes very much, even though they talk, and swagger, and dress like they did in the old days.
When going to Costa Rica substitutes for family business in Sicily, and pencils and paper give way to computers, the old-style mobster scene buckles and some of the old goombas can’t take it.
Legalizing marijuana, legit real estate deals and clever and self-sufficient spouses are not the fodder of the usual mob movies we are used to, and that results in a lot of fun and surprises like in “Jersey Bred.”
