Reflections on Success by Pasquale Squitieri Pasquale Scuitieri, I think, decided to fully repeat the success of Camorra with Fabio Testi. The tapes have one plot - the path of a young man to the very top of the criminal hierarchy. Only here, if in Camorra the hero had important acquaintances, then in Ambitious - he trades on the street, selling prohibited drugs. There is no big family here. Brownian movement of young criminal growth leads to the fact that the young broken Godrov rebel-intellectual targets the highest criminal pedestals. And he reaches them. He knows the price he will have to pay.
For Squitieri in creative terms, this tape was, in my opinion, a complete failure. He decided to combine the reality of Godrov’s rebellion, ragged editing and irrepressible youth with the already successfully mastered discourse of the Camorra. But the tape just didn't look good. The first hour and all the action gets stuck in awkward attempts to achieve criminal success. And it is not even in the affairs themselves, but how indistinctly all this is presented. And even the performer of the main role Joe Dullesandro - an expressive young man, turns out to be completely indistinct. The character in his performance is obviously weak, slippery and devoid of personal attraction.
Perhaps only in the last 25 minutes the picture can captivate the viewer. But all bets have already been made and the moralizing inevitability of the final is so predictable.
4 out of 10