If you like Carlito's Way, Taxi Driver and a bunch of other "streetgangster"-movies, you'll probably like this one - or hate it! 'Cause the plot is like a mixture of above mentioned masterpieces of the gangster genre.
Bobby G. wants to get out of NY, back to Puerto Rico, with his girlfriend. In order to accomplish that he has to do another coke deal, but this time it's bigger than anything he's ever done before. And of course everything goes wrong.
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Like in Carlito's Way, the protagonist wants to quit his illegal gangster life, because it didn't do him any good in the past. Like Carlito Brigante's, Bobby G.s dream comes closer and closer: he just wants to get out of that damn city and flee to Puerto Rico with his prostitute girlfriend. Sadly, his past gets to him the very last minute he spends in NY. The brother of some guy Bobby G. killed for money some days ago meets him. In a dark and lonesome alley. And the cab with his girlfriend and enough money to get out waits just ten meters from where he gets shot. Yawn.
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Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie. But if you have seen Carlito's Way and/or Taxi Driver, you're bound to yawn from time to time. If you haven't seen Carlito's Way, DO NOT WATCH BOBBY G.! I did and I wasn't surprised by the way Carlito's Way ended. From the moment Carlito Brigante hits "Benny Blanco from he Bronx" and decides to spare his life, I knew how the movie would end. 'Cause i've seen it in Bobby G.
Bobby G. wants to get out of NY, back to Puerto Rico, with his girlfriend. In order to accomplish that he has to do another coke deal, but this time it's bigger than anything he's ever done before. And of course everything goes wrong.
(SPOILER)
Like in Carlito's Way, the protagonist wants to quit his illegal gangster life, because it didn't do him any good in the past. Like Carlito Brigante's, Bobby G.s dream comes closer and closer: he just wants to get out of that damn city and flee to Puerto Rico with his prostitute girlfriend. Sadly, his past gets to him the very last minute he spends in NY. The brother of some guy Bobby G. killed for money some days ago meets him. In a dark and lonesome alley. And the cab with his girlfriend and enough money to get out waits just ten meters from where he gets shot. Yawn.
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Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie. But if you have seen Carlito's Way and/or Taxi Driver, you're bound to yawn from time to time. If you haven't seen Carlito's Way, DO NOT WATCH BOBBY G.! I did and I wasn't surprised by the way Carlito's Way ended. From the moment Carlito Brigante hits "Benny Blanco from he Bronx" and decides to spare his life, I knew how the movie would end. 'Cause i've seen it in Bobby G.