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Gripping recreation of facts
Because "Excellent Cadavers" - or, as it's titled in Europe and Australia, "Falcone" - is a film based on facts, you begin to watch it knowing perfectly well just what is going to happen and what the ending will be. Nevertheless, it manages to be gripping and deeply involving. The story of judge Falcone and his self-sacrificial fight against the seemingly omnipotent mafia is faithully recreated (though perhaps a little too shortened for my liking) - if marginally fictionalized - and treated with respect it deserves. The script certainly does Falcone justice, as does Chazz Palminteri's portrayal of the relentless lawman. F. Murray Abraham delivers as well, and even though he obviously does not look anything like the real Tommasso Buscetta, he convincingly portrays an old-fashioned "man of honor", a relic of the mob era when the term had an actual meaning. Victor Cavallo as Salvatore Riina, shown here as a secondary character, is worth mentioning too - Cavallo, though his role has little screen time and is in fact reduced almost to a few dialogueless cameos, manages to create a memorable, truly frightening and malevolent screen personality, perfectly recreating the nature of the real "Toto". Though this is "only" a TV production, it can certainly stand tall and proud next to any cinematic giants of the mob film genre. Highly recommended.

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Must see for every mafia movie lover
For those that want something different from all those Sinatra loving american-born mafioso this is a must. The movie based on a true story and describes the life of Judge Falcone, a man dedicated in fighting the mafia in its nest, Sicily. I gave it 3stars as i find quite short and end very suddenly.

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War against the Mafia: Raw and Brutal
This is a powerful film. The fact that it has only 1 "name" star( F.Murray Abraham,as Don/Godfather Tommaasso Buscetta) and uses multi-over-voice news casts, and actual newspaper clip/photo montages conveys an aura of documentary realism not often seen except perhaps in war films. EXCELLENT CADAVERS is a war film. It has been noted the film makes no effort at "Godfather glamorizing" of Dons and wise-guys of The Mafia. Nor does it opt for a meretricious cool that allows "The Good Fellows" to be thugs but tough-guy anti-heroes at the same time. The Sicilian mobsters are portrayed as demonic monsters; their "soldiers" as conscienceless killers. Chazz Palminteri is excellent as soft-spoken, courageous Judge Giovanni Falcone. He takes-on the thankless, almost suicidal mission of ferreting-out the 5th estate/Racketeer dominated infrastructure of his government and nation amidst an unbelievable reign of terror by Cosa Nostra. With assassinations of public officials and police occurring daily, the breaking of Omerta...the blood code of silence...by Don Tommasso Buscetta (in vengeance for mob killings of his family members by other Dons) "opens the ball" to mass indictments, arrests and convictions of literally hundreds of Mafia leaders and their tainted government cohorts. But the victory is not without terrible, final cost. This film is unfliching in its depiction of what a war against the Mafia is. Some would observe that the film "lacks" depth. However, how much of a hearing do terrorists merit? The Sicilian Mafia...also called The Octopus because its tentacles extend to virtually every major criminal enterprise on earth...is the government of Crime. In lands blessed by God, it will remain The Black Hand that curses men. Perhaps it can never be defeated. But EXCELLENT CADAVERS is an excellent film, raw and brutal, that demonstrates there are still heroic men and women willing to risk themselves to fight the Mafia...wherever it strikes... in unending War of attrition.