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is pitch perfect as the vengeance-minded older Mafioso. But with no involving story on offer, rain-slickened streets and rat-a-tat tommy guns just aren’t enough. Should it arrive Stateside, the film will bring in genre fans on the strength of its sure-to-be-blistering trailer alone. Once disappointment spreads, though, its only hope will be achieving cult status.
If you think we’re headed for a down-and-dirty “Taken”-style blast of medieval vengeance, such is not the case. ‘5 Is the Perfect Number’ is instead a superficial wallow in the same moral gray areas we’ve seen explored more effectively in many other Mafia tales: the counterintuitive notions of honor among thieves, the Mafiosi’s love of family and our own irresistible desire to romanticize organized crime.
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