Tulsa King makes me wonder why Sylvester Stallone took so long to follow in the footsteps of Nero, Pacino and other actors

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Tulsa King season 2.Watching Tulsa King Makes me wonder why it took so long Sylvester Stollone To show how great he is at playing a gangster. Stallone stars in Tulsa King As Dwight Manfredi, a capo of a New York City mafia who is sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start his own criminal empire. Tulsa King It was also a massive success for Stallone, and it’s one of the best shows on Paramount+. I’m a big fan of both Tulsa King and Stollone, but the show also highlighted something really confusing about the actor’s career.

Sylvester Stallone is one of the most legendary actors in Hollywood. He was an icon of both the action genre through his Rambo franchise, and the sports genre by Rocky. While Stallone’s best movies often dominate their genre, there’s one area he’s only recently broken into through Tulsa King: the crime genre. Although it’s a genre full of legendary actors like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and even Denzel Washington, I can’t help but wonder why Stallone never got into it before, especially considering how good he is at Tulsa King.

Sylvester Stallone plays a big gangster in Tulsa King

Tulsa King is, simply put, Sylvester Stallone’s best performance as a gangster, and it may be one of his best performances overall. Watching Stallone play Dwight makes me think he was purpose-built to play Moby. He has everything a good gangster needs: Stallone is awesome with charisma to charm both enemies and allies, he is more than capable of being an intimidating and imposing figure in suspenseful scenes, and he is almost perfect to demonstrate how important and powerful Dwight is. Tulsa King Also pulled off one of Stallone’s most emotional and versatile performances in years, and it showed me a side of the actor I rarely get to see.

Stallone doesn’t just serve Tulsa King Well, though, how the show also serves him. There were some great moments, like the end of Tulsa King Season 2, episode 3, where Stallone got a chance to play some fantastic gangster scenes. Whether the show has him at gunpoint with a rival gang or in an attempted hit, Stallone has proven that he can pull off a gangster scene as well as the likes of De Niro or Pacino. Tulsa King is so good, in fact, that I can’t help but wonder why Stallone never broke into the crime genre early in his career.

Sylvester Stallone has played gangsters before – to mixed reviews

While Tulsa King Certainly Stallone’s most recent outing as a gangster, this isn’t his first time playing a mafioso. Stallone has played a handful of mobsters over the years in films like Oscar, fist, Accept AngeloAnd Get Carter. Most of the films, however, did not really capture how well Stallone can play a gangster. Except fistWhich was very well received, the highest Rotten tomatoes The score Stallone received for a crime project earlier Tulsa King was 13%. With one notable outlier, most of Stallone’s gangster roles have been in underwhelming movies.

Another problem with Stallone’s previous crime movies is that he never played a gangster in the traditional sense. Accept Angelo was an action comedy that saw Stallone play a bodyguard for the crowd, while fist saw him as a blue-collar worker who ran his truck union like a mob. Even the two movies where Stallone played proper gangsters do not fit into the crime genre: Oscar was a comedy, and Get Carter was more of a revenge actioner than a crime film. Tulsa King Just proves that with the right script, Stallone can play an amazing gangster.

Sylvester Stallone may have been an all-time great crime actor

I really enjoyed seeing Stallone in Tulsa KingBut it also highlights something I find extremely disappointing: Sylvester Stallone could have been an all-time great crime actor. Tulsa King – and even fist To an extent – is proof that Stallone has had the chops to play a gangster for most of his career. If he had started playing in the genre before, and took roles in better movies, the name “Stallone” would be just as synonymous with mafia movies as Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino or any of the other greats..

I feel like the crime genre has been robbed of Stallone’s talents for decades, specifically because he could have told some great stories that other actors weren’t necessarily capable of. Stollone, for most of his career, was known for his physicality and strength. He could have filled a unique niche in the crime genre, and he could have played a mob boss who also served as his own muscle. I can only imagine how good a young Stallone would have been in a Martin Scorsese movie, and it’s a shame we’ll never get to see it.

Even if Stallone did not break into the crime genre in his acting major, Tulsa King Proves the old adage “better late than never” true. It was a pleasure to see Stallone take over Oklahoma, and I’m glad he got a chance to play mob boss for two full seasons. The possibility of Tulsa King Season 3 is also really exciting, just because I’ll take as much of Stallone playing a gangster as I can get. Although it is not the same as a Scorsese movie, I am still happy that Tulsa King gave Sylvester Stollone A chance to prove how good of an actor he is.

Source: Rotten tomatoes