Babyface Morgan review

Interest: 3/10

Acting: 5/10

Storyline: 8/10

Funny: 2/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 7/10

Excitement: 6/10

“Eh’s” used in the film: 10/10

Nudity: 0/10

Insurance Sold: 10/10

Logic: 5/10

This is an old black and white film, and the quality I have is pretty bad (Film itself is literally blotchy) but otherwise the film is watchable, but let’s get into the meat of this review.

Interest: It kept my interest okay, it wasn’t anything spectacular. It is a real slow burner, and what is supposed to be interesting is still pretty bland. The acting is very rigid between everyone, not just one or two of the actors. The idea that mobsters use a kid as a front is indeed a great idea, it was just done poorly, this would be one of those times that I’d say I’d like to see a remake of this movie.

Acting: The acting isn’t fantastic. It’s pretty rigid, and not just one or two actors. It’s the whole cast besides one or two people, and those people that do act well, have a moment or two of air time. The rest are all the near same mobster mockup in sounding, all dressed differently. A couple mobsters are either dumb, or the tough guy, or the smart one, but all the same “Mugsy” mobster type. Lowered, raspy voices. It is what it is though.

Storyline: The idea is mobster boss dies, have to find another one, find one, happens to be some random kid, mobsters do what they want as kid is “President” of insurance company. It’s a semi clever idea, and I enjoyed it. It at least was thought out and it played out in an interesting way.

Funny: This film on IMDB is billed as a comedy, but in what capacity, I do not know. It’s a hour long and there are jokes about turning some bunnies into a fur coat for a mobsters girlfriend. But other than that, it is all serious all the time. I am honestly surprised this got put in the comedy genre.

Fights , Guns or Otherwise: There is a lot of verbal banter that are good insults and good fights. Physically there are some fights, some roughin up scenes, and a gun going off once or twice. Otherwise the film is pretty clean, no blood, and the fights are quick and pretty bland.

Excitement: It’s an older mobster movie. It has some allure to it, but it just doesn’t grab you, it’s more a drama, and a failing comedy then anything really exciting. The banter is good though. And the ending is actually pretty exciting and tense. It honestly won’t hold most people’s interest unless you get sucked into movies easily.

“Eh’s” used in the film: There were many “Eh’s” used in this film see. And it was pretty hard to hold off on using eh’s and see’s this whole time see. This films full of em, and just can’t stop see. It’s so contagious see. I can’t stop see, Myeah myeah.

Nudity: It’s an old film, no nudity, no risque dresses. Maybe subtle hints of sex appeal as the ladies were sitting on occasion, but that’s really grasping at straws. Otherwise this movie is pretty clean. And that’s okay, maybe in a modern day remake it could be a littler “Dirtier” but otherwise it’s clean, and it wouldn’t of added anything to the film, at least how it played out.

Insurance Sold: The setup for the mob is that it’s an insurance company. Well insurance gets sold and I suppose the “funny” part is that the money they steal originally is financing the actual insurance that people were buying, and the kid they grab was being honest and the stores and companies the insurance money. But that kid did a great job selling so racketeer insurance.

Logic: The logic was semi broken. While I understand mobsters aren’t generally the most bright of people, I still think it’d be pretty unusual to see mobsters go “Hey we should get an outsider to be our boss” and while it was a way to seize power by one of the gangsters, there must have been a better way, even if it was a complete farse, made up a gangster name and no one was the “Babyface Morgan”. Or pick a real mobster or something anything. Other than that, it seems like it was logically sound, that one part though just seemed painfully bad, and I just couldn’t see that really happening.

Was the movie worth it? No, not really. I like mobster flicks, I like the mobster stereotype, it was slightly funny, and I should of enjoyed it, but because the rigidity of the acting, strange logic and anything else I complained about, I think it makes a poor candidate for a movie to watch. Sure you could watch it and rip on it with friends, but even then there isn’t much to rip on. Not saying it’s impossible, but you’d be looking real hard for that golden joke to say. 56%, But in the pretty much unwatchable way.