Masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2002)

Ignore the awful 2 hour version - it's so hacked to bits that any sense of story is lost. The full length 3 hour plus version is the one to see, and it's one of the best New York films ever made.
It's got everything - great performances (De Niro & Woods especially), grear direction from the master, great script, great score (Morricone at his best), great cinematography (the lighting looks subtly different for the different ages. And that's before getting to a story that is one of the best ever filmed. It's not just a gangster film; it's part western, part whodunnit, part romantic, part buddy, part everything - the depth to this film is amazing.