I'm a fan of documentaries and I've literally watched thousands including random schmo's on Youtube who have compiled them over a weekend and this may very well be the worst directed/written/compiled documentary that I've ever seen. It's an interesting story, which is nearly impossible to fail at, yet this does. Everything feels forced... it feels like an interview rather than a free flow of information being shared to the camera. For reasons that boggle my mind beyond belief, they show a camera perspective showing the interviewed subjects with the cameras and lights on them. The interviews were already feeling high pressured and forced, so why would they intentionally take the viewer even more out of it by showing the production associated with the subject being interviewed? This would almost be like if you're watching a movie and the movie intentionally shows the stuntmen attached to bungee cords and all the props in the middle of the movie. I realize this is a documentary, but it's still the same idea. This isn't what makes this documentary bad... it's already bad, but this sums it up perfectly.
It tries to be clever by jumping all over the place, but it ends up being a massive cluster of mostly garbage.There was one portion of the doc that I enjoyed and that's when Lillo was telling his story of how he got the part for A Bronx Tale, which is I'm guessing a good 15 minutes or so. The crazy thing is you could tell that Lillo Brancato is an interesting person who could tell a good story, but this doc feels like they filmed it in a pressure situation rather than letting the interview subjects to speak off the cuff and it shows. The good reviews on here must be from people who were intrigued by the story rather than the documentary in of itself. Hopefully the people who put this doc together could either learn from their mistakes or stop doing documentary's all together, because this is really bad... people on Youtube who compile info over a weekend and make a video compile much better content.
Warning not sure if this is a spoiler, this is in reference to the so called burglary, which is public information prior to this documentary, but warning if you don't want to know the story going in even though this barely covers that and does a horrendous job at doing so. Anyways, the situation that landed Lillo beyond bars. His crime was very minimal... misdemeanor-esk at most. His crime was only a so called burglary (but it's a reach to even call what happened a burglary) and in that process a person who he was with, ended up returning fire on an off duty cop and killing him... and since it was a cop, the book gets thrown at Lillo and the person who returned fire. Had it not been a cop, nothing would happened to anyone, but because apparently cops have extra rights then us regular folk, Lilo gets 10 years in prison. Lillo did have self inflicted issues with drugs and had his own personal journey in overcoming those struggles, but did absolutely nothing to land himself in prison in reference to the cop. I can't believe that a situation such as this case can show the special treatment of cops and simply not be ashamed of presenting that so blatantly. Then just the fact that the cop was out of uniform makes all bets off, especially if that person defended themselves by returning fire. Meanwhile Lillo was just in the vicinity when this happened... give me a break!
It tries to be clever by jumping all over the place, but it ends up being a massive cluster of mostly garbage.There was one portion of the doc that I enjoyed and that's when Lillo was telling his story of how he got the part for A Bronx Tale, which is I'm guessing a good 15 minutes or so. The crazy thing is you could tell that Lillo Brancato is an interesting person who could tell a good story, but this doc feels like they filmed it in a pressure situation rather than letting the interview subjects to speak off the cuff and it shows. The good reviews on here must be from people who were intrigued by the story rather than the documentary in of itself. Hopefully the people who put this doc together could either learn from their mistakes or stop doing documentary's all together, because this is really bad... people on Youtube who compile info over a weekend and make a video compile much better content.
Warning not sure if this is a spoiler, this is in reference to the so called burglary, which is public information prior to this documentary, but warning if you don't want to know the story going in even though this barely covers that and does a horrendous job at doing so. Anyways, the situation that landed Lillo beyond bars. His crime was very minimal... misdemeanor-esk at most. His crime was only a so called burglary (but it's a reach to even call what happened a burglary) and in that process a person who he was with, ended up returning fire on an off duty cop and killing him... and since it was a cop, the book gets thrown at Lillo and the person who returned fire. Had it not been a cop, nothing would happened to anyone, but because apparently cops have extra rights then us regular folk, Lilo gets 10 years in prison. Lillo did have self inflicted issues with drugs and had his own personal journey in overcoming those struggles, but did absolutely nothing to land himself in prison in reference to the cop. I can't believe that a situation such as this case can show the special treatment of cops and simply not be ashamed of presenting that so blatantly. Then just the fact that the cop was out of uniform makes all bets off, especially if that person defended themselves by returning fire. Meanwhile Lillo was just in the vicinity when this happened... give me a break!