I found it difficult to like most of the characters. If this was supposed to be a "Robin Hood" type of story then they missed the target. I was hoping that Michael Pitt would get killed after the first 30 minutes. Didn't like him in Funny Games - that was GOOD casting as the audience was supposed to hate those two yuppie sociopaths but this didn't work. Another poor casting choice was Yul Vasquez as Vinny Gorgeous - I was waiting for him to say "We are taking the armoire and that is that!" Rispoli was the stand out in this film also Cathy Moriarty and Griffin Dunne good. Aida Turturro was completely cut out of the film but it didn't really matter as her story did not add much. Overall I wasn't impressed - with Rispoli, Garcia, Moriarty, Pastore, Young and even Romano and Whalley it could have been better. A well written script and a little more effort in casting certain roles would have made this a mediocre mob film as it is it's a "one and done" for me.