Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Newly released from prison, Bobby scoffs at the chance to earn an honest living in his father's construction business and gets caught back up in a life of inescapable crime. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
29 November 1982, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
20 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
12 March 1974, India
1 October 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 15, 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
29 February 1976, Hollis, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1974, Suffern, New York, USA
4 October 1949, New York City, New York, USA
29 November 1960, The Bronx, New York, USA
1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 02, 2013
Packing the screen with wiseguy-story regulars - like Vincent Pastore and a limp Tony Darrow, perhaps distracted by his recent legal difficulties - is fruitless when your movie is as pathetically inept as this one.
April 30, 2013
As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping.
May 03, 2013
"GoodFellas" is just one of the movies that did this all much better before.
May 02, 2013
Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill.
May 05, 2013
Solid performances can't save the film from its banal, convoluted screenplay that leaves no room for interpretation or subtlety.
April 30, 2013
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn's vision of the Mafia comes filtered through a needlessly complex screenplay, as if the creators felt the need to prove they've seen a few Arnaud Desplechin films alongside Goodfellas.
