McMafia

2018

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  • 1

7.6| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Majikat Blink and you will have missed something, whilst it appears to be slow moving, a lot is going on and whilst it's not always grabbing your attention, it's a clever, deep web of international business mixed with the criminal underbelly, reminders of Michael Corleone on a much bigger scale and naturally acted, bringing a scary reality to it al.
Alice C Where to begin. The main character who appears to be in his 30s was raised wealthy in London, doesn't have a Russian accent and went to best schools including Harvard but later they keep saying the family left Russia 15 years ago. Doesn't really compute along with much of the rest of the story. His 'loving' uncle hurts his business purposesly with rumors so he'll have to let a criminal element into his investment fund. Which even though they try to present him as a man of impeccable character he quickly agrees by buying into the title McMafia idea of we'll go outperform the Russian syndicate that killed your traitor uncle by having a bigger presence (for revenge purposes). And after the first pushback which obviously would be coming when the Russian syndicate figured out what was going on the guy he sold out to basically folds like a cheap suit and gives up. Huh?! Meanwhile the show turns to soap opera drama about his washed up father having an affair, a pregnancy with the mistress, the pretense of drama about his fiancé learning he is not exactly legit. The fiance also gets shot and spends weeks in the hospital with no visible wound or need to be there. There is a lot of crying, suicide attempts and screaming, we see his father feeding ducks about as much as the toy Star Ship Enterprise flew pointlessly around the original Star Trek and more crying. I think about every character gets their shot at crying at least once. The storyline literally barely advances each episode. Not a very good show. They should have focused on an actual crime syndicate war and had characters you cared about like in the Sopranos. This does none of that. Just kill the main guy and end this sad saga.
wotsonurmind Firstly, really stunned by the number of FAKE reviews for this series. Most reviewers have reviewed only this series or a couple of vague ones from this time period. The only way to be sure of a review on imdb nowadays is to look at the body of work,past reviews of good movies,etc. It's time amazon did somehting about this FAKE NEWS!!Night Manager has certainly spoiled our taste.The would-be Night Managers,which happens to be in this case are so slow,passionless and trite it is stunning that a large budget doe snot help the poor amateuris script. The litter of great reviews surely have to be manufactured because this one is just a sad case of amatuerish rubbish!
the_it This show was just so dreary and boringly clcihèd that I regret wasting my time watching it on iPlayer.... I only stuck it out to see how it ended. Shouldn't have bothered really! Once again the BBC is wasting our license fee with such dreary rubbish to showcase yet another privately educated one-dimensional Oxbridge pretty boy whose acting is average at the very best! And, like his predecessor, the press starts touting him as the next James Bond...! This show went all over the world and dragged out the plot to show how international and truly global the Beeb is nowadays, and no expense has been spared- mainly because it's paid for by the viewers who have no choice in the matter! But this show telegraphed the entire plot all the way through- absolutely NOTHING was a surprise- even down to the 'moral compass/conscientious girlfriend who knows from the get-go not to get involved with shady businessmen from afar! Shockingly bland, in spite of the global locations ZZZzzzzzzzzz.........