Power is something that everyone who crawls the Earth longs to have. Power is hard to attain and even harder to keep, but Edward Jones has managed to span a legacy of maintaining authority as a gangster.
The documentary works as an expose and requiem to gangster and philanthropist Edward Jones as the filmmakers talk to Jones’ descendants while recounting what said descendants know about him.
The documentary sounds almost like the 1981 Reds where people recall their involvement with John Reed and Louise Bryant. Its style is incredibly interesting as it unveils the fascinating true events that occurred in another time that we will never be able to witness for our own eyes.
The story works well enough to stand on its own two legs with such visceral fervor that it’s too much of an enormous feat in documentary filmmaking that seems to withstand the test of time.
In short, the film has a spark that ignites when true documentary film buffs collectively come together to watch a film that encapsulates the essence of one gangster.