Toni Collette's 'Mafia Mamma' offers a feminist twist on the classic mobster genre.

"Mafia Mamma" directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Toni Collette is a premise in search of fleshed-out characters. The film lives in the uncanny valley between incompetent and unwatchable, with outdated notions of female empowerment. The Italian and clueless American stereotypes wouldn’t be so terrible if the film succeeded in being a satire, or at least the jokes were ever funny. The film plays like nothing more than an excuse for Collette, Hardwicke, and company to vacation in Italy.