EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

matthijsalexander What better way to learn and enjoy at the same time. I wish there were more series like these.Whether 100% accurate or not, I don't really care. Perhaps some things are exaggerated, perhaps some facts presented a bit more romantic. It really doesn't bother me.The story line, the rise of Capone, has been covered many times, the story told many times. The genius of this is the combination of documentary and series. The acting surprisingly good.Though one would expect to be very predictable and very 'sopranos-like', it is not. Great care has been taken in producing and creating a worthy product.My compliments, and I can only say that I have enjoyed every episode equally.

BHof890474 As others have pointed out, this series is so full of inaccuracies that you probably would be better off watching re-runs of the old "Untouchables" with Robert Stack for historical context. Some examples:Dion O'Banion was not killed from across the room by the two gunmen who entered his flower shop. One of the men reached out to shake hands with him and held his gun hand while the other man pumped lead into him.In one scene, which is supposed to take place in 1925, there is a 1938 Chevy coupe in the background.Johnny Torrio was not shot in the street while out shopping with his wife. He was gunned down in the front yard of his home.Whoever got AMC to green light this nonsense must have bought a helluva lunch.

bob peeters I stopped watching after 5 or 10 minutes. After they said "The young charlie luciano moved to New York...." I turned it off. Any idiot knows he was born as Salvatore Lucania and that he changed his name when he got older. All this "narrated by ray liotta" high production humbug, with a dramatic and way too loud soundtrack as if this is the ultimate mob documentary to surpass all others, and they neglect stuff like this? Ridiculous. How can you be so pretentious and negligent at the same time? and this 10 line minimum for a review is also absolute nonsense. So this is why you are reading this useless filler. Here, some more. I'm just gonna keep on going until I have enough lines and I can post my little rant. Because that's just what it is. Plenty of other good mafia docco's around. Nobody needs this and I certainly will not lose a second of sleep over it.

shinningstar-82066 I rated this series a 10 because I loved the production of it in general. Being a history buff I was a little disappointed with this series crediting Luciano with creating the blueprint of the "Five Families" when it's well documented that Maranzano was the mastermind of that operation and that Luciano was the one to implement it.I was also confused when the narrator described Murder Inc. as being a group of Jewish hit men and not a mixture of Jewish and Italian hit men with the ringleader Albert Anastasia being Italian. There were a few other historical discrepancies however it wasn't to the point where I would lower my rating of the entire production itself because I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm hoping there will be another installment of this series because there are so many early gangsters that have notoriously made their mark in carving out a piece of the American Dream and it would be nice to see their story told.This was an excellent series and I was so sad for it to end.