It should be fun! It should be campy! It should have flair! It shouldn’t be this…bad.
—the titular Mafia Mamma in question—sits with an impish smirk on her face, sprawled out before a bottle of wine and a smoking gun. She is flanked by two tall, similarly gun-toting men, whose faces are cut off from the artwork. Who cares about them? This is about her: the suburban mom turned mafia don, who seemingly just shot someone dead and is so pleased that she’s celebrating with a glass of vino.
Collette—who is also a producer on the film—stars as Kristin Balbano, a beleaguered working mom who has just shipped her son off to college , and found her marriage falling apart as a result. Kristin isn’t taken seriously at her high-level advertising agency or by her philandering husband, and is in desperate need for a change. As if a sign from the cherubic Italian angels, she receives a call from Bianca , a close friend of her grandfather’s, to alert Kristin to his passing.
Cue the first of many erroneous editing mishaps that somehow made it into the final cut. After exchanging numbers with her suitor, Lorenzo , in the airport taxi line, Kristin says goodbye, and suddenly, Lorenzo’s cab is completely gone. The viewer never sees Lorenzo enter it, nor do they see it speeding away. All we’re given is a baffling smash-cut to Kristin celebrating her win, while the rest of us are left scratching our heads.
Collette is saddled with an unforgiving, one-note character. Kristin’s dopey persona works in her favor way too often. She frequently saves her own life by accident, in scenes that lose their microscopic shreds of humorous luster the more they’re repeated.
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