Good Story But...

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2019)

Once Upon a Time in America tells a great story about Noodles and his Jewish mob friends over a period of many decades. However, the story is too long and and has too many scenes that i felt could've easily been taken out. It is a damn beautiful movie with great characters and awesome scenes, but you often can forget them because there is long periods of boring scenes. It tries to hard to be shocking and those scenes are too over extended, which can sometimes take away from the movie. If the movie was about an hour or so shorter, and a few of the "shocking" scenes were taken out, this movie could be sooo much better, because when the movie is going on during its "good parts", it is truly one of the best gangster movies ever made, however it could have still been better. 7.5/10