In a huge move of casting against type, Hugh Grant plays... wait for it... a bumbling Englishman trying to find love!
This time he finds out that his fiancee (Tripplehorn) is the daughter of a mobster. She doesn't want him to be "warped" by her relatives, but slowly he is drawn into their world. James Caan plays her father and Grant's main ally when they get themselves further and further into trouble, with both his future wife and the big boss.
Some hilarious situations are set up and executed quite well, such as the scene in the restaurant when Grant is trying to propose. Or when Grant and Caan's lives depend on Grant's pulling himself off as a mobster with an Italian accent (a scene probably devised from a real life Grant's bumblings at any non-English accent - oops, am I being rude?). Not a first-rate movie of any of its genres, Mickey Blue Eyes does entertain well for its fair hour-and-a-half share. Hmm... That's not as nice a review as I meant it... Oh well...