The website's critical consensus reads, "An all-star comedy lineup is wasted on a paper-thin plot and painfully clunky dialogue."[13] On Metacritic, the film received a score of 16 based on 14 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[14] Michael Wilmington noted in the Los Angeles Times that the "production design lacks glitter. The movie also lacks the Harlem outside the gaudy gangland environs, the poverty, filth, pain, humanity, humor and danger that feeds these mobster fantasies."[15]