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...does the D.A. (Stanley Tucci), who makes a proposal: help him catch the rest of the mob, and Jimmy can go back to daddying. The trouble is that while Jimmy is away, that old gang of his is taken over by Little Junior, played by the peerlessly creepy Nicolas Cage. Even though he doesn't get to push a wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs, as giggly Richard Widmark did memorably in the original, hypnotic psychopathy is never in short supply when Cage is aslither...
...Death is Tucci's marvelously slimy prosecutor. This character was once a symbol of society's rectitude. Now he's as hard and amoral as the gangsters, someone we snicker at knowingly. He, and our reaction to him, may be the scariest thing about this movie-scarier than Cage's performance. Or the good reviews for Caruso's nonperformance...
...smug betrayal, (forget that Jimmy Smits has been excellent) would have been happy to see his film career flounder. But with the release of "Kiss Of Death," Caruso's career, unfortunately, should take off. Directed by Barbet Schroeder ("Single White Female" and "Reversal of Fortune") and starring Caruso, Nicholas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, "Kiss Of Death" is a powerful modern interpretation of film noir...
With a family to worry about and his life at stake, Kilmartin is forced to cooperate with the police. Infiltrating the same organization that masterminded the stolen car operation, Kilmartin befriends the boss, Little Junior (Cage). As an insane mobster, Cage gives the performance of his life. The cop assigned to oversee Kimartin's undercover work in the mob, Calvin (Jackson), is the same one who caught a bullet under the eye when Kilmartin was arrested. Having lost control of his tear duct, Calvin totes a hankerchief to dab his incessantly watering...
While this film is obviously Carouse's vehicle, it is Cage who drives off with it. Quite simply he is the most inherently entertaining actor in film today. Thankfully, his taste for material is sometimes as brilliant as his acting. His Little Junior is nuts, but like Kilmartin, has a human side which is especially charismatic. Every time the asthmatic Little Junior reaches for his gold-plated inhaler one can almost forget about the men he has bludgeoned to death...