The Alto Knights

'The Alto Knights' delivered for me. A (biographical) crime drama featuring Robert De Niro, what's not to love? It's a bio about Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two people I'm not all that familiar with but the story is an easy one to understand and follow so it matters not.

I'm not absolutely sold on the documentary-esque scenes, though everything more traditional is excellent in my opinion. It doesn't feel like it adds anything new to the genre, much of it does feel derivative, but I'm not even hating at all because I highly enjoyed it.

De Niro is as quality as one would expect in this sorta role, or roles as it is. I didn't initially know it was a dual, so I was actually quizzing myself as to if it was him playing both; I was like, it sounds like him but the make-up is good enough that I'm not convinced to be honest. Only me, I'm sure.

A wonderful story well told. Another outstanding performance by De Niro, he rarely disappoints.

This made me want to go back and watch all of the old mob movies.

Highly recommended if you're a fan of mob movies.

Great performance by De Niro. Took me way too long to realise he was playing Vito as well.

The movie is a rehash of Mafia movie tropes. But still worth watching.

Why does Robert De Niro play two parts? Casting someone else as Vito Genovese wouldn't have made the story any better, but it would've been a lot less distracting. The Alto Knights is fine. Anticlimactic and forgettable, but fine.

Not one of de niro's most memorable gangster movies,it's all story and very little action.It managed to hold my attention though and the two hours passed very quickly.

The film could have been quite good but there are 2 main issues:
1st no good OST, 2nd is the fact De Niro plays 2 characters, I spent the whole film mixing the 2 characters and being confused and I don’t see the point of doing that. Too bad. Could have been an 8.

I didn't like that De Niro played both leads; they could have cast someone else as Vito. Aside from that, I really liked the story.

Fans of De Niro and the gangster movie will have fun with this but they wont find anything new.He will always be cinema's greatest gangster.

Have been looking forward to this one but got bored and turned it off. Robert has lost his edge to me 😔

1 reason not to watch this: De Niro