The Last Don movie is a classic case of 'spare no expense' ignorance. The cast was great in my opinion. After watching the movie and reading the book I could see that the director and producers made good choices in their casting. Jason Gedrick played an excellent Cross, and Joe Magtenga played an excellent Pippi. However the story was pretty weak, it lacked the power that the novel had. With The Godfather you could see that there was a great deal of detail, from story to movie. With the novel it was as if they were tracing a picture (putting a blank sheet of paper over a picture and copying the picture underneath. Afterwards you get a somewhat good copy, but still crappy)

They should have taken carefull consideration with the script and direction. If they had done so then the movie could have shared in the same spotlight as The Godfather, that of course is my humble opinion.

Roland