Mob Boss (1990) Reviews

• one of morgan fairchild's happier roles. it's revenge-of-the-nerds meets the mob.

  loui-in-stlouis2000-05-26

  problem: what to do with morgan fairchild besides putting her in a tight dress? answer: she is the perfect trophy girlfriend for a mob boss. amazingly, this movie is never boring. it may be entirely daffy, but that is its aim and it hits the mark. this is ms. fairchild's happiest outing, and a smart role for eddie deezen, who brings his best REVENGE OF THE NERDS II and turns it up a notch. everyone in fact is well cast, and this is why the movie holds together so well. for those who seek lunacy but don't want slapstick, or who simply want to see morgan fairchild without cringing.

• AN OK COMEDY

  bazdol1999-01-27

  I thought this was a pretty funny take off on Mafia type movies. Almost every scene takes a jab at gangster cliches and/or standard filming and editing techniques. It is uneven though. Some of the actors seem to take their acting job not too seriously and seem amused over playing in this spoof.

• William Hickey's performance is the only good thing........

  merklekranz2008-03-14

  If you liked William Hickey in "Prizzi's Honor", he resurrects his character, as Don Anthony in "Mob Boss". This is a very weak "Godfather" satire with few laughs. Stuart Whitman looks perplexed as to what he's doing in this schlock-fest? Morgan Fairchild's performance is one of the better efforts in the movie, and that alone is not a good sign for sure. Eddie Deezen vacillates between "Three Stooges" slapstick and a bad Woody Allen imitation. Fatally flawed, "Mob Boss" is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases, hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom, and numerous other nonsense. - MERK

• Morgan Fairchild in tight dresses

  Dizzy-101999-06-10

  That's about the only redeeming quality in a movie that otherwise insults the viewer's intelligence by losing track of time, plot, and reason for being produced. Plus, how that guy with the glasses ever got a gig in Hollywood is beyond me.

• Annoying Woody Allen Mob Spoof Rip-Off

  Jackpollins2009-08-10

  Ever once in a while I run into a movie that is so embarrassingly bad I wonder why movies exist. This is one of them. This is a terrible attempt to parody The Godfather with annoying cartoon sounds, and bad dialogue. Eddie Deezen is just plain annoying as Tony, an annoying twit who upon his father, Don (William Hickey)'s request, takes over the family business. Tony, as I said, is an annoying little twit. This makes the whole movie a complete mess. The movie is terribly daffy. It's too cartoonish. The main point I'm trying to make is that you can't make a parody of an acclaimed drama like The Godfather with so much cartoonishness. It doesn't work that way. Believe it or not, you have to take a parody of a dramatic movie seriously. If you don't take it seriously, it will feel too much like a parody. The thing about doing a parody is that you can't seem too much like you're doing a parody. You have to make it seem like you're taking the movie at least a little bit seriously. It also feels like they're just mocking Woody Allen, and that's what makes this movie absolutely terrible.