
After serving several prison sentences, Bobby Baldano is out. Craving a life of inescapable crime, but desperate to honor his family, Bobby must decide whether to make his family proud or destroy what generations of Baldanos have built before him. A twist ending reveals what truths Bobby always knew forcing him to make a life altering decision. One wrong move could be his last.... (Full plot summary below)
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After serving several prison sentences, Bobby Baldano is out. Craving a life of inescapable crime, but desperate to honor his family, Bobby must decide whether to make his family proud or destroy what generations of Baldanos have built before him. A twist ending reveals what truths Bobby always knew forcing him to make a life altering decision. One wrong move could be his last.
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| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferSolid performances can't save the film from its banal, convoluted screenplay that leaves no room for interpretation or subtlety. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierCathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeGive director Paul Borghese credit for daring in giving his movie a title that evokes Sergio Leone’s two most famous epics. The trouble with doing that, of course, is that you better be prepared to deliver a movie on the same level. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisPacking 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. |
| Slant MagazineDrew HuntAs far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping. |
| Village VoiceSteve EricksonOnce 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckBarely qualifies as late-night cable television fodder. |
| User ReviewDave GArmand Assante is a power house!!!! Very Entertaining!!!! |
| User Reviewdan_petersDon't know what all the negative fuss is about, this movie was awesome! Okay, the script is a bit like a lot of other films but there are some great acting here and the ending – wow! pow! – I didn't see it coming and it made me feel very much. I liked it a lot, great work and congrats to all who were involved in the production and the writing and also the acting and the lighting and the costumes and the effects and the legal department and the catering, but not the animal wranglers, they were truly dreadful and should have been fired and also killed. |
| User ReviewKevin RRats. I got no use for them. Bobby is released from prison for doing some time he earned and held his word to his crime family; so once out, he returns to his crime family roots. A lot has changed since he went in, and the new recruits aren't as conservative and the new bosses aren't as tough. Bobby struggles to adjust to his new lifestyle and tries to stay true to his brothers from before he went in...but he may discover they have changed as well... "Please don't spank me..." Paul Borghese, director of Four Deadly Reasons, Searching for Bobby D, From Geek to Guido, Sex on the Saddle, and the upcoming Dinner with the Foodfellas, delivers Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn. The storyline for this picture is very interesting and contains some entertaining characters. The script and acting are average and the cast includes William DeMeo, Armand Asssante, Cathy Moriarty, Ice-T, and Wass Stevens. "What are you, a walking tornado?" I recently came across this on Netflix and randomly added it to my queue. This was better than I anticipated. Some of the scenes could have been better, and some of the characters could have been more dynamic, but I enjoyed the main character and thought William DeMeo did a solid job. Overall, this is worth seeing once but I wouldn't add it to my DVD collection. "It was a distraction...a good one though..." Grade: C+ |