Closer to perfection

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2004)

Once Upon a Time in America depicts the lives of Jewish gangsters starting from their childhood.Sergio Leone directed this long masterpiece twenty years ago, in 1984.This was his final direction.As usually, Ennio Morricone made the score for this movie, like he did to numerous Leone movies.The cast is something to remember.There are people like Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Burt Young, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, James Hayden, Estelle Harris of Seinfeld and the young Jennifer Connelly in her movie debut.Those three things combined make this movie a masterpiece; Leone's direction, Morricone's score and the acting work.Some may say this epic is too long for them, I'd say you just have to have patience.