West New York

Buy This Item West New York by Mti Home Video  Available from Amazon  $24.95  on 10-4-2008     West New York is horrible ( i should know i lived there for 29 yrs, & recently got the hec out!) just like this low-budget movie! How in the hell can you have Frank Vincent & the other dood from the Sopranos starr in a lemon like this? FUGGEDABOUDIT! PURE 100% bad acting! The trading in bonds for loot plot was CHEESEY! Most of all,,,i felt like throwing a shoe at the screen when you see how Colleti (F. Vincent)gets shot..I am glad i only paid a dollar for thisThe funny thing is,,,the garbage bag i am putting this DVD in,,,costs more,,,,,go figure. Reader Reviews WEST NEW YORK (1996), featuring a soundtrack reminiscent of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" in the credits, but with an overall enjoyable Miami-Vice dose of action and synth audio, is a tense, hyper-emotional drama. It tells the story of individuals either currently or formerly in law enforcement, being tempted by the goods and valuables they are charged to protect, as part of their dutues, for personal profit in this case. Starring Frank Vincent, in the role of a former cop, gets involved in what originally he had intended to only be a skimming oepration to cobble up a nest egg for his daughter and son in law. This shortly after gets magnified by a factor of 1,000 as the bad guys exert pressure on him to take the action to a higher level, and out of proportion, which he is reluctant to do although aware that refusing could have fatal consequences, while going along with it makes the risks of being caught higher. With an unusual human warmth of 2 unknowns in the business - Gian DiDonna and Gloria Darpino, as well as Brian McCormack playing the "Machevellian Dirty Cop", with a demeanor reminiscent of Harvey Keitel in some ways, the DVD only has 2 biographies in the extras, one for Frank Vincent, and the other for Vincent Pastore, who is a staple in these crime / underworld dramas. There's a generous mixture of private and business lives told of the characters, succeeding in involving the viewers, making the outcome matter, entertaining them. The action carries viewers into the story, with a very real, appropriate, natural dialog, very well articulated by the actors. A number of aspects of policing is demonstrated: the former cops who ran into trouble in the past (alcohol, etc.); the present cops, some of which only maintain themselves at the expense of illegal behavior from the threats they utter and through collaboration they have with individuals in the underworld to cover their tracks / mistakes, playing both sides on the checkerboard (so to speak). Finally, there'sthe regular folks: wives, husbands, police chiefs, friends who have no hidden agenda, just a basic, simple conduct. Vincent Frank is cool, calm, collected, yet able to transmit drama and play the part of veteran who's been around the block a few times. Some brutality, of course, is shown (stabbing, shootings, strangling, fighting), as well as some language excesses (namely, by Pastore's character.) A necessary love scene is shown, to add some depth to one of the central characters, who abhors her husband, when he's psyching out as a disbalanced, cop on the edge, running to a former lover. The filming is high quality, clear, ( although not widescreen ) and is fine as a DVD rental above all, for sure superior to a TV movie. The plot is timeless, as hasn't aged since the release date.

West New York Available from Amazon Price: $24.95 Updated on 10-4-2008.

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