THE DARK SIDE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 1999)

This movie is really shocking, beggining with ENNIO'S MORRICONE MUSIC, I THINK AND MAYBE SOME PEOPLE WOULD AGREE, that this is the greatest music written for a film ever, pieces like AMAPOLA, that gives the MELANCHOLIC, sad feeling to the movie.
The Sergio Leone's crude epic-drama of a group of friends, that would do everything to get to power, in the 1910's Manhattan.
A history of betrayal, ambition, friendship, poverty, that cast of Hollywood's greatest: De Niro, Wood, Pesci, Burt Young, mixed with Sergio Leone's genius to direct, and make a excellent portrayal of the dark side of the american dream.
A very shocking, strong, powerful film, combined with Morrocone's music, make this film ONE OF THE UN-NOTICED GREAT FILMS OF ALL TIMES, ONLY COMPARED WITH GODFATHER, but the difference that ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA is too DARK.