I know well this low-budget, badly-made, crazily violent V crap that you meet in video stores so dusty on a deserted shelf, or find on TV always late at night without many ads during it. Thank god, this time it wasn't that crap, and surprisingly it got a meaning as well.Hollywood mob movies lately are nothing but Scorsese' pieces with a historical look (Goodfellas, Casino), the shoot'm up fares (Snatch), and the spoofs (Jane Austen's Mafia!). Now (This Thing of Ours) is just a humble movie that doesn't have the true stories, the stars, or the great factors yet it's surely still watchable.It's a nice time. I liked the structure of this script, it's solid. The idea of the heist was truly wild. The soundtrack was primitive yet a bit interesting. Although most of the cast are the minor actors of Scorsese' movies, but oh my god they did so well, especially Frank Vincent who fitted in his role finely as the boss. Some of the rest did BAD. And of course I'm talking about guys like the one who played the role of the police officer, now OH MY GOD what a criminal! This guy looked like someone who escaped from the audience after torturing them in his high school's play (and it's better for you pal to continue running !). While Christian Maelen was the one who looked charismatic the most, the 3 leads weren't the best actors altogether, delivering deadly usual work. However I can't blame them fully, since it's not about acting in the first place. The whole deal is about the heist and its consequences, not about the deep characters or something of this sort!Some points bothered me. I mean what was the need to see that haughty businessman got beaten in his office for money he didn't pay ?! I think we all know, even from other movies, that these guys aren't joking about being rough, so it's not a thing to design a couple of scenes just to assure it !!Plus, there was no style at all. And I'm not talking about Scorsese here, but the axiomatic things. The artistic personality of the movie is so poor. The camera-work got all the time an easy way to do all the matters without making a fine suspense or leading certain feeling. I felt usual, sometimes low, TV all over it. Simply it got nothing to embody anything. While the dialog was nice and natural, I just felt something wrong with the way most of the characters were shown. Do these Italian-American still look like this? Because if Scorsese is right then these people are still talking and dealing exactly the same since the 1970s! In a word the stereotypes were just PURE and MANY !..And that's why James Caan got to be this old-fashioned, board, paralyzed godfather. He maybe knew that there is nothing that new. So he got to be at least special. In fact the presence of Caan is the only coup de maitre this movie achieves, not only because winning his name on the poster (and maybe selling the whole movie due to it), but also for the way his persona was used; since Sonny Corleone himself became, in this movie's world, that helpless non-respected old news. The last scene was an epitome of this movie's real condition. It's meaningful but without very much depths. It's dramatically important but with so modest TV-ish carrying out. And its acting was between good and half good! Well, this is exactly the mistake that this movie does; putting a bit promising stuff in so clumsy hands. Just damn. The crisis of that lead could have been something more attractive whereas he would live without friends anymore or even allies if he got out. But sure this is something to watch in any other movie but this ! It was about a successful heist, then beating the police, the enemies, and the moral choice itself. I loved that it got a meaning anyway about doing the perfidy to be trusted, where family and friends – in the new mafia's, rather the new age's, laws – are not needed as the money or with the money, namely the movie's rule of "no connections". But I believe that the true no-connections this movie has was between its story and any artistic embodiment whatsoever. So clearly "this thing of them" needed a lot to be more sophisticated and glossy.

I saw Caan, Pastore and Vincent...and the trailer...and I thought, hey why not give it a chance? So I ordered it on DVD from the US.I saw it last night, and man what a big disappointment...OK, I know it's a low budget movie - but it's just terrible. I've seen other low budget movies on the mob that are far better. (give "Witness to the Mob" a chance)This movie tries to ripoff of the BIG greater mafia movies like Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco etc. without getting close... Some scenes are just so "embarrassing" that you don't know if you should laugh or cry. over 5 on IMDb? G's...this movie dosen't deserve anything better then a 3.Don't buy it, don't rent it...just Forgetaboutit!//S

I saw this movie this week in FL and thought it was a great movie. The story was exciting and unique -- and the acting was wonderful. The direction was bold and the writing was crisp and authentic. With all the bad movies out there, it is a suprise that this isn't in more theaters. I hope we can be expecting more films of this caliber from Danny Provenzano.

gzzzzzzz......i note a bit of hostility! alot of time and effort went into this film which should be appreciated in this industry. There is also an abundance of talented people associated with this film. In addition alot of no name talents were given an opportunity to shine and shine they did! Pls. be patient as this sight is being updated for all who took part to be given proper credit.