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The shooter (Cosmo Jarvis), sent by Genovese, makes a bad mistake, as his boss will remind him later: “You gotta go SEE if they’re dead!” Amazingly, Costello survives. “I shoulda been paying more attention,” says the genteel mobster who favors diplomacy over bloodletting, narrating from the future.We then go back in time to figure out how things got this bad.

With the help of vintage photos and footage artfully edited to include actors playing the younger Frank and Vito, we learn the two were good friends as young Italian immigrants on the streets. But when Vito got mixed up in a murder case, he had to flee to Italy — leaving cooler-headed Frank in charge of the business.Years later, Vito returns, and wants his role at the top of the mob family. And so things go south, quickly.The women in their lives mirror the differences between the two men. Costello’s wife of more than 50 years, Bobbie (Debra Messing, making a nice foray into drama), is a loyal partner who urges her husband to retire and leave New York — along with their adorable dogs (De Niro’s own pooches, dressed in mink coats and hats — a costume design Oscar for this canine fashion, please!). Genovese’s wife Anna (Kathrine Narducci, excellent) is a businesswoman — she owns a gay bar — whose fiery union with Vito turns disastrous.

A mere glance at Wikipedia will tell you that both Genovese and Costello ultimately died in nonviolent ways. There’s plenty in “The Alto Knights” that you won’t see there — for example, the movie’s version of just who engineered that farmland mob summit, and why.But watching dozens of mobsters run like heck when police happen upon their gathering is a hoot, and it’s hard to beat the moment when two of them insist to suspicious cops: “We’re hunters!”

If only such witty moments were more frequent in a two-hour movie that somehow, alas, feels much longer.

“The Alto Knights,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release, has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association “for violence and pervasive language.” Running time: 120 minutes. Two stars out of four.The election took place against a backdrop of what both sides of politics describe as a cost of living crisis.

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