AIANDAS Here's a piece of garbage that managed to recruit the Rock; Liam Hemsworth; Paul Ben-Victor; Jerry Ferrara; Michael Rispoli; & Emma Roberts into thinking this was going to be something cool maybe like a Pulp Fiction or something. NOT!!!Where do I begin? I mean the only reason this gets a 1 is because of these box office stars where some come from billion $ franchises. They thought hey gonna make a small independent and will be a cool one. Anyway, for openers with the budget they had WHY WOULD you go to the 3- different disparate locations like New Orleans, Toronto and Queens where they should have focused on ONLY? Continuity in this things is a mess. Oh and in a move of desperation they would use exterior subway train shots to advance the narrative as though oh we shot that in Toronto so now to fool our audience let's show them a subway train so they think it's NYC. When Ben-Victor's character gets fired from his job and seems destitute and a Greek from the old country ISO of us seeing him listening to some rebetika he just sulks. Doesn't even play the koboloi!Then sorry but Liam huge miscast there as a Greek guy from Queens. Yeah he has box office draw but did not pull off this role. The Rock barely used and not well taken advantage of his talents. The "Eddie" character was the worst of them all. Yeah I get what his character was about but was so poorly played by Angarano that if I was them would have cut that role off altogether.Then Jerry Ferrara what the hell was he thinking? Absolute abomination of a flick that was going to give us some insights on the "Greek Mafia" only to end being a farce and nothing else. Or my favorite "based on a true story." Too bad a zero not available here.

Tss5078 Chris Potamitis (Liam Hemsworth) has always wanted to be a cop, but as is the case with most recent graduates, he's on a waiting list, so he takes a job as an armored truck guard. Almost as soon as he starts working there, Chris is scared by the amount of money and the lack of security at the place he's working, and stupidly mentions that fact to his best friend, Eddie (Michael Angarano). Eddie immediately plans and executes a robbery, which both the police and Chris's mobbed up bosses thinks he's involved in. Now his life is endangered on three separate fronts and he's not sure where to turn. Empire State is a tremendous thriller based on a true story, written and directed by Dito Montiel, and if you don't know the name, you should. Montiel made a stunning debut, telling his life story in the film, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, in 2006 (On of our Must See Movies). Montiel's career has been all up hill from there. He grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, and all his films are based on real life stories from the neighborhood, that were forgotten a long time ago. With Montiel films you're always guaranteed a few things, a well written story, a tremendous cast, lots of action, and lots of eye candy, and Empire State does not disappoint. This film has everything from the insider angle, to the mob, inside the police investigation, and of course Liam Hemsworth at the center of it all. Big brother Chris may get all the recognition in Hollywood, for being the all-mighty Thor, but baby brother Liam, really does get better and better in every film I see him in. Empire State has a little bit of everything, it is well written, and comes at you from so many different angles. This film was so much fun to watch, it's the kind of thing you want to see more than once, and it's streaming so if you're not doing anything right now, go check it out!

Derek Charette This girly man little idiot "Eddie" is perhaps the most ignorant, annoying actor I have ever seen. Certainly anybody that acted like this fool in reality would of been put down many years before. This is a poorly directed, poorly acted, poorly written movie. It is in fact, frustrating to watch. The only reason I kept watching was hopefully I would see a bullet rip through this "Eddie" moron's face. The acting was over the top (in a bad way). Over dramatic acting to say the least, backed by a poorly written script. Seeing as this movie is based on real events, the production came off as something made by incompetent fools. The ingredients for a good movie were in place, but they didn't know what they were doing, and burnt it to a crisp. Given a better production team this movie could of been much better. Don't waste your time, unless for some reason, this is the only movie you are able to watch.

LeonLouisRicci An Almost Movie that is Almost what it Attempts to be, but not quite. It has many Scenes that are Frustrating and the Characters range from Impossibly Irritating (Eddie) to somewhat Dull (Chris). The Director handles the Film in a way that could be called Mis-Handled. The Screenplay, even Worse and is all over the Place.Never Witty or Intriguing it moves along at a slightly more than Snail's Pace as it has some Clunky Combinations of Irritating Talk, Punctuated with some Violence. It never seems to Coalesce and by the End the whole Thing is a Ho-Hum Affair that betrays its True Life Subject Matter.This may have been the Greatest Heist in History but as a Film not so Great. Mediocre at Best, it is Dull at Times and is put together like a Crazy Woman's Quilt, resulting in a Craggy, Bland, but not Totally Worthless Film. It has some Moments but the Crime here is that it's all Rendered with a Complete lack of Style or Composition that makes this Type of Thing such a Perpetual, Intriguing Genre. The Heist Film. But it was an Opportunity that got Stolen Away in the Script Phase.