Synopsis:

Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.

The Freak's Rating: C+ : I am an enormous fan of nearly all the Coen brothers' work. Miller's Crossing was a film I missed in their resume and it has set on my Netflix queue for nearly a year. Having finally received it, I can now say it wasn't a major loss that I waited so long.

The brothers have escalated their filmmaking skills with each they produce, the latest of which in No Country For Old Men was phenomenal in nearly every way. Miller's Crossing has a great cast and great acting, but the storyline is a little weak for my taste. A prohibition era film about two mobsters at war sounds like solid gold at first look, but romances, twists and turns and the claim (from the trailer alone) that "up is down, black is white" imply that the film will be something original. There are a couple twists that make it that way, but there just isn't enough strength in the storyline to make me give this higher than a C+.

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