Sly Stallone in role of mafia man is interesting to see and by the way he auditioned on Paulie Gazzo (as also on Carlo Rizzi, but it’s not a gangster character.) in The Godfather and got offer from a head of Paramount in the end of eighties on scriptwriting, staging and acting The Godfather III, but he refused to produce a film by considering it in his words “this is the worst idea since my conception”, because for him it would be a disrespect to director Francis Ford Coppola. He had such personage in Oscar, but it’s a comedy. Just launched TV series Tulsa King became this implementation and mostly it promoted as earnest. However, a conception about an Italian origin criminal who was sent in middle of nowhere can’t accept as serious and I wouldn’t watch this show if not involvement of Stallone.
Screenplay of Tulsa King is a farce in grounded world. The crime activities are ridiculous in how Sly’s hero does racketing, makes associates who haven’t reason to go into crime life and one of them takes it for a joke and story with him in a car store is farfetched on that he is a “drug dealer”… in Oklahoma. Main line is preposterous in that alone in town and nobody calls police after incident.
I put twenty bucks that dialogs were bumpy and Stallone’s involvement saved them. Except one sentence in intro a voiceover wasn’t clean.
A cameraman knows on good shot and editing was accurate. Blatant exceptions were in office of a head of the car store when Sly does turn around of his body in two times, but it makes with multiple switching on cameras what is without necessity and sometimes with rude shots. And two balls of ice cream, then no one in a cone from a back camera and followed image from a side shows a half of a ball.
Technically, it can watch, listen and acting is handle as, of course, usual greatness from Sly Stallone who plays his age on which he doesn’t look. However, I don’t want to see more. Show already becomes guessable in lines and announcement of the next episode revealed of coming of absolute worst state with the screenplay.
