Sequels rarely pack the punch that an original first run film can deliver. But in the case of Gangs 2, the eye-talian - irish conflict has a verisimilitude that is chilling.
An eye-talian don who retired long before his time has a son who has been groomed to go the distance where his papa came up one meatball short. Just as the son, Andrew is about to take his big step to the Senate, the daughter of an Irish gangland boss cut down in an untimely mob hit cuts the line.
Haunting flashbacks of the privileged daughter and her pony frolicking on the family compound grounds are juxtaposed with the raucous eye-talian family dinners, baptisms, weddings(one of which is Andrew's nuptials with the a kennedy chieftain's daughter!) and wakes. The tension mounts as the don and the Irish clan chieftain move toward a war council.
The negotiations over weapons carries a wry commentary as one family must withdraw when the weapon of choice ends up being money.
