The Alto Knights” is an enjoyable if choppily paced look at a relationship between two men, where unfortunately we’re arriving pretty late in the game.

When two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro agreed to play Frank Costello, the diplomatic mob boss at the center of the new film "The Alto Knights," there was another crucial question left to answer: Who would play Costello's childhood friend turned enemy, mobster Vito Genovese?

The Oscar-winning actor plays gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in a real-life crime film written by Nicholas Pileggi and co-starring Debra Messing.