Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 4
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Bobby Baldano, (William DeMeo) is the black sheep of his family. When he gets out of prison after serving a five year sentence, his Father, (Armand Assante) has high hopes of a fresh start for him and coming to work at Joseph Baldano & Sons Contracting, the legitimate and thriving multi-generational family business Bobby's grandfather built up from nothing. But Bobby's a mob connected street thug who gets caught back up in a life of inescapable crime. He has two families - one supportive and
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"GoodFellas" is just one of the movies that did this all much better before.
Top CriticPacking the screen with wiseguy-story regulars - like Vincent Pastore and a limp Tony Darrow, perhaps distracted by his recent legal difficulties - is fruitless when your movie is as pathetically inept as this one.
Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill.
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn's vision of the Mafia comes filtered through a needlessly complex screenplay, as if the creators felt the need to prove they've seen a few Arnaud Desplechin films alongside Goodfellas.
Solid performances can't save the film from its banal, convoluted screenplay that leaves no room for interpretation or subtlety.
As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping.
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- Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (DE)
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