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I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Yeah, I said silly! Look, is it a masterpiece? No. But it's funny! The humor is dumb and predictable but utterly delightful. It's a comedy of errors with a surprisingly star studded cast. If you need a break from life and a good laugh, sometimes Sly Stallone as a mobster is the remedy!

OSCAR is one of Sylvester Stallone's regretful forays into comedy. The action star himself isn't really as fault, as he tries very hard with the deadpanning, and John Landis's direction remains brisk and efficient. It's the the fact that the screenplay simply isn't very funny and all of the gangster characters are too similar to stand out. They end up blending into one which doesn't make for a very eventful movie. What this film does have is a fantastic cast, which is a speciality of Landis's. Tim Curry has a fine extended cameo as a speech therapist while a youthful Marisa Tomei is gorgeous and funny as Stallone's daughter. There are also plenty of smaller roles for the likes of Kurtwood Smith, Martin Ferrero and Yvonne De Carlo to help make the experience a little more bearable.

1930s gangster "Snaps" Provolone makes a deathbed promise to his papa that will he go straight; one month later, with his goons disarmed, Snaps is trying to get on the board of directors of the bank, but his former cronies think he's planning something big; meanwhile, Snaps' sheltered daughter is pretending to be pregnant by Oscar the chauffeur in order to get out of the house. Busy, fairly laughless farce, adapted from Claude Magnier's play by Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland, hopes to evoke the screwball comedies of the '30s and '40s, but needed a far more nimble touch (and a likable troupe of players) to succeed. Here, director John Landis plays traffic manager with his hammy cast, encouraging them to flail away and mug without funny characterizations (it's all gangster shtick). An over-rehearsed Sylvester Stallone has the lead; his clipped line readings aren't fresh, and one can see right away that henchman Chazz Palminteri would do much better with the part (Palminteri's scene emptying his pockets-- a cartoonish, familiar gag--manages to get the biggest laugh). Stallone isn't much of a comedian (he's too heavy-spirited), and "Oscar" isn't much of a comedy, although one can fixated on the picture watching scene after scene fizzle without benefit of precise pacing and delivery. *1/2 from ****

A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight". Oscar is not one of Stallone's best and for sure not one that you are going to remember the next day the comedy looks forced and the acting sometimes over the top not bad just over the top but Stallone tho is easily the best part of the movie who is surrounded by a very talented cast of Tim Curry, Ornella Muti, Marisa Tomei, Kirk Douglas, Chazz Palminteri, Kurtwood Smith and Eddie Bracken and more. Like i said not a bad movie just a bit forced and nothing memorable but honestly i had fun with this film it was funny and very very entertaining check it out sometime in the near future.