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Pic starts with Castellano being shot in his car as his armed driver gets out. But his legacy is shortchanged at every turn, even his death. His marriage to fever-pitched Nina (an over-the-top Patricia Mauceri), the Gambino relative whose last name assisted his rise in the crime family, ends in a New York minute in this drama all of these are superficially treated angles that could play into defining Castellano as a man. “Bosses,” most significantly, answers no questions about Castellano and his motivations or even explains his intense dislike of rising mobster John Gotti (Sonny Marinelli in the movie’s most underwritten role) or why he saw a life for himself in the arms of his Colombian housekeeper, Gloria (Angela Alvarado Rosa). And not only is there no sympathy drawn to Daniel Benzali’s depiction of FBI honcho Bruce Mouw, we’re left thinking the bald Benzali, star of “Murder One,” went after criminals with a far greater vengeance on that short-lived ABC show than Mouw did with the five families. It even fails to get street lingo correct, referring to “whacking out” a rat rather than the more correct “whack,” and actors struggle with the simple “fugeddaboutit.” Although adapted from a book penned by FBI agents, telepic lacks a particular point of view - there’s not even a likable character to latch onto. Young Paul Castellano (Yani Gellman) is a go-getter par excellence in Jere Cunningham’s script, which struggles once the future king grows up. “Boss” delivers a flat portrayal of the mob’s first white-collar criminal, the man who chose to elevate the level of organized crime, taking it out of the streets and into legitimate businesses. A weak script and uninspired direction only add to the curious nature of this telepic that tries to extend the notion of a “mob movie” - by midway this made-for would lose viewers to “Godfather 3.” Were it fiction, it might not be so irritating that “Boss” skims over the aspects of Castellano’s life that would be the most applicable to this sort of treatment, and Chazz Palminteri’s charisma-free performance would have some merits in its coldness. Let’s forget for a moment that Hollywood’s depictions of the Mafia are these days shot through “Sopranos”-stained lenses, that there was a time when mob comparisons were strictly “The Godfather” and “GoodFellas.” “Boss of Bosses” aspires to depict the Paul Castellano story in “Sopranos” fashion, i.e., displaying the godfather as a well-rounded man rather than iconic gangster.
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