10th & Wolf (2006)IMDB LinkPoor Mafia movies. May they rest in peace. It seems we don’t really get any more Mafia movies any more. In all fairness, maybe we don’t them any more. They have all been done, and they have been done excellently. With movies like Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas, and Casino, is there anything left? All Mafia movies will do, is want to make you want to re-watch the better ones.
That is what “10th and Wolf” does. Set it in the early 90s, a mariner is disillusioned by his service, because at the end of the Gulf War, they were not allowed to go get Saddam. Typical popular American media attitude. The only time they remember to point out the fuck up of their ways, is a decade later, based on the politics of the present day. So yeah, the mariner is visited by some Feds, and is asked to go back into his Italiana Mafia gangsta to gather info, to save his brother and his cousin, who he loves very much, which is shown by a lot of hugging and kissing.
It is not really a dull mafia movie, but it is not something we will remember. The Mafia boys here are the new generation of a new generation. There is no grandness of the old Mafia families, these boys just seem like leftover thugs from a dead breed. They do not even speak Italian anymore. At the end of the movie, the wife of a big time Mafia boss tells one of the young protagonist, “You are a disgrace to your heritage.”
In a way, so it is the movie, but even a disgrace has its moments.
3/5
