A mob-linked big-league contractor moves to Florida, falls in love with boat racing, but ultimately cannot escape his past because he makes many bad choices. We know there's no happy ending because the film starts with John Travolta getting shot to death.
The film has the incongruence of real life events that it is based on, as well as the mix of excitement and boring stretches. However, this is one of those situations where good film making departs from the literal, and hones the story to make it spellbinding. Here the scripting and directing fell short of that, despite passable attempts by the actors to fill in the story of a man who deserts his family for boat racing, makes a new family, and ultimately is haunted by his past when he is forced by bad business deals to come back to the fold of his mob connections.
The film is an interesting 1960s to 1980s period piece, but it simply falls short on the quality of the storytelling, often being quite boring or having elements that do not move the story along and could have been cut. Nice try, but no cigar! 5/10.
The film has the incongruence of real life events that it is based on, as well as the mix of excitement and boring stretches. However, this is one of those situations where good film making departs from the literal, and hones the story to make it spellbinding. Here the scripting and directing fell short of that, despite passable attempts by the actors to fill in the story of a man who deserts his family for boat racing, makes a new family, and ultimately is haunted by his past when he is forced by bad business deals to come back to the fold of his mob connections.
The film is an interesting 1960s to 1980s period piece, but it simply falls short on the quality of the storytelling, often being quite boring or having elements that do not move the story along and could have been cut. Nice try, but no cigar! 5/10.