Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

NickyCee This was really a bad movie. It looks like it was filmed using a Best Buy camcorder and lighting from Rent-All®. The "director" also starred in the movie. Some a**-hat (*=s) named Danny Provenzano. Never seen him and never want to again. He doesn't look Italian at all and has this strange, crooked face with huge flaring nostrils. Truly unsettling to look at. His acting is another story. It's just one cliché after another. He tries to act New York Italian but comes off like St. Paul, MN actor at the Eau De Claire Wisconsin Community Theatre trying his best to pull off Sonny from The Godfather. He's most likely making ends meet by giving those acting classes to the special needs kids (and I respect him from that) but he really shouldn't be staring in his own movie.Now for that scene I mentioned in the title of my review. This one scene is enough for you "Awful Movie Fans" to perk up and head straight to Amazon or what ever dark hole of a rental store you can find this turd:The scene happens at a Chinese restaurant. Four members of a crew lead by Eau De Claire Community Theatre's favorite son Danny Provenzano (Character name: Nicky) are sitting around the table. "It's time to try those improvisation chops!" thinks Danny. So for no reason, his character starts telling a rediculous nonsensical story about a "6 foot 8 inch" man he and the mobster to his right had to kill. It's clearly improvised as seen on the faces of the other "Goombahs" around the table as Danny is talking. Danny finishes the first part of his just made up story and looks to the other actor to jump in. Oh, he does - adding his own brand of improvisation. Now it's back to Eau De Claire Danny who actually contradicts what he said earlier and also mixes up the improvised facts laid out by the other actor. This goes on for so so so long and it is so so so bad on so so so many levels. If anyone other than Eau De Claire Danny had directed the movie, it would have been left on the cutting room floor in its entirety. But there it is --- for all you lucky viewers to see. And see you must. So how bad is this movie? Think: Graveyard scene in Plan 9 and you'll get the idea!

elshikh4 I know well this low-budget, badly-made, crazily violent V crap that you meet in video stores so dusty on a deserted shelf, or find on TV always late at night without many ads during it. Thank god, this time it wasn't that crap, and surprisingly it got a meaning as well.Hollywood mob movies lately are nothing but Scorsese' pieces with a historical look (Goodfellas, Casino), the shoot'm up fares (Snatch), and the spoofs (Jane Austen's Mafia!). Now (This Thing of Ours) is just a humble movie that doesn't have the true stories, the stars, or the great factors yet it's surely still watchable.It's a nice time. I liked the structure of this script, it's solid. The idea of the heist was truly wild. The soundtrack was primitive yet a bit interesting. Although most of the cast are the minor actors of Scorsese' movies, but oh my god they did so well, especially Frank Vincent who fitted in his role finely as the boss. Some of the rest did BAD. And of course I'm talking about guys like the one who played the role of the police officer, now OH MY GOD what a criminal! This guy looked like someone who escaped from the audience after torturing them in his high school's play (and it's better for you pal to continue running !). While Christian Maelen was the one who looked charismatic the most, the 3 leads weren't the best actors altogether, delivering deadly usual work. However I can't blame them fully, since it's not about acting in the first place. The whole deal is about the heist and its consequences, not about the deep characters or something of this sort!Some points bothered me. I mean what was the need to see that haughty businessman got beaten in his office for money he didn't pay ?! I think we all know, even from other movies, that these guys aren't joking about being rough, so it's not a thing to design a couple of scenes just to assure it !!Plus, there was no style at all. And I'm not talking about Scorsese here, but the axiomatic things. The artistic personality of the movie is so poor. The camera-work got all the time an easy way to do all the matters without making a fine suspense or leading certain feeling. I felt usual, sometimes low, TV all over it. Simply it got nothing to embody anything. While the dialog was nice and natural, I just felt something wrong with the way most of the characters were shown. Do these Italian-American still look like this? Because if Scorsese is right then these people are still talking and dealing exactly the same since the 1970s! In a word the stereotypes were just PURE and MANY !..And that's why James Caan got to be this old-fashioned, board, paralyzed godfather. He maybe knew that there is nothing that new. So he got to be at least special. In fact the presence of Caan is the only coup de maitre this movie achieves, not only because winning his name on the poster (and maybe selling the whole movie due to it), but also for the way his persona was used; since Sonny Corleone himself became, in this movie's world, that helpless non-respected old news. The last scene was an epitome of this movie's real condition. It's meaningful but without very much depths. It's dramatically important but with so modest TV-ish carrying out. And its acting was between good and half good! Well, this is exactly the mistake that this movie does; putting a bit promising stuff in so clumsy hands. Just damn. The crisis of that lead could have been something more attractive whereas he would live without friends anymore or even allies if he got out. But sure this is something to watch in any other movie but this ! It was about a successful heist, then beating the police, the enemies, and the moral choice itself. I loved that it got a meaning anyway about doing the perfidy to be trusted, where family and friends – in the new mafia's, rather the new age's, laws – are not needed as the money or with the money, namely the movie's rule of "no connections". But I believe that the true no-connections this movie has was between its story and any artistic embodiment whatsoever. So clearly "this thing of them" needed a lot to be more sophisticated and glossy.

hast-2 This film is a joke. Apparently stuffing a bunch of well dressed Italians around a dinner table and having them tell anecdotes and curse a lot was someone's idea of a good mafia movie. All this movie consists of is random arguments, occasional unrealistic violence, laughable acting, and a numbing level of foul talk. "This thing of ours" plays into every possible Italian mafia stereotype, and blatantly attempts to rip off good gangster films like "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather". I would rather watch "Pink Flamingos" again, than watch this failure again. Do not waste your time, life is too short, and this film is simply too bad.

Sandro Sannelli I saw Caan, Pastore and Vincent...and the trailer...and I thought, hey why not give it a chance? So I ordered it on DVD from the US.I saw it last night, and man what a big disappointment...OK, I know it's a low budget movie - but it's just terrible. I've seen other low budget movies on the mob that are far better. (give "Witness to the Mob" a chance)This movie tries to ripoff of the BIG greater mafia movies like Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco etc. without getting close... Some scenes are just so "embarrassing" that you don't know if you should laugh or cry. over 5 on IMDb? G's...this movie dosen't deserve anything better then a 3.Don't buy it, don't rent it...just Forgetaboutit!//S