What's All the Hoopla About?

Rating: 1/10 (27 August 2018)

Another glorification of the criminal lowlife aspect of society, and nothing more. Maybe the director wanted to glorify, or maybe he wanted to show the barbaric brutality of mobsters, or maybe he wanted to do both. That's the way this viewer felt, anyway, while watching. There are glorification scenes a'plenty, and then there's the rape scene in the back of the hired car where all beauty and piety and loveliness and pure love and righteousness are maligned in such a way that you really wish the driver of the vehicle puts an end to the perpetrator then and there, let the cards fall where they may with the criminal's syndicate lifelong friends. There are far better mobster films out there, most of them produced during the Noir era of Hollywood because the director's of that era hated crime and what these monkeys were doing to Hollywood and the rest of the world. Bugsy Siegel, who has a small role in this film, in real life tried to be a movie star but was rejected not because of his looks but because of his egregious lifestyle. I mean, 'Murder, Inc.' Really? What a loser. And on top of all that, this alleged "masterpiece" is filled with rape, under-aged sexual activity (how did Leone get permissions for these child actors to play such horrid parts?), and elongated scenes that would make a prostitute blush.