3/10
Original Gangster
5 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Castor (Alex Mills) was orphaned as a child. He was spared by Milo (Ian Reddington) the man hired to kill his parents.

Castor has since lived a feral existence. Living rough on the streets, stealing and boozing.

Ten years later he meets Milo again. His saviour and hero. Milo introduces Castor to local crime boss Jean-Baptiste Philippe (Steve Guttenberg.)

Castor becomes an assassin but faces a dilemma when Milo is unexpectedly killed.

Director Savvas D. Michael makes an energetic but an unoriginal gangster film. It tries too hard to imitate Guy Ritchie.

Savvas has his stock company of actors for his low budget movies. This time joined by Guttenberg with a dreadful wig.

I guess some of the dark humour was intentional. Milo rails against wokeism while being casually cruel to his wife. Castor needlessly slaps a woman in a graveyard who tells him off.

Maybe Savvas hopes that Harvey Weinstein will fund his future movies from his prison cell!

Castor is suitably dim for someone who has not gone to school but not learned to be streetwise. Yet he is remarkably well spruced for a guy living on the streets for years.
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