| Once Upon a Time in America [Region 2] |  | Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld
Category: DVD
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Rating:  306 reviews
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 229 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 6.1 x 1.2
EAN: 5060051630798
ASIN: B0000CC7GR
Theatrical Release Date: June 1, 1984
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This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine
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 Now a bit dated stylistically February 3, 2010
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Almost every scene in this flashback ridden gangster flick is 2 or 3 times longer than necessary, as if the director couldn't bear to cut anything. If this was a book, it would be 1500 pages long and no one would read it. Don't fall for the overheated praise by fans. This is no masterpiece. It's not like the acting is so majestic, or the plot so convoluted that it justifies lingering at this glacial pace. One flashback is almost 90 minutes long by itself! At times, the cinematography looks like a 1960s TV show. To be fair, the NYC sets from the early 1900s look interesting, though they are obviously sets, not locations. I wasn't fooled into believing I was watching 1930s NYC either. It looks more like 1900 at times. The anachronisms can be distracting. The violence is brutal, but nothing we haven't seen done better elsewhere.. Even the blood looks fake. One thing they did get right: how Bob DeNiro would look when he was older. He really does look today like he was made up to look in this movie as an old man 30-40 years ago. If you have more than four hours to kill, maybe you can get through this. But few will want to take it all in one sitting.
 Great Movie February 3, 2010
Tony (Illinois)
"Once Upon a Time in America"
is a timeless movie that I enjoyed watching.
THE CLASSIC GANGSTER FILM January 31, 2010
Jennifer D. Nichols (Nebraska)
I saw this movie for the first time on HBO when I was about 15. This was 25 years ago and it still is the best film I have ever seen. DeNiro has a few films that many have never heard of and are terrific movies, this is one of them. Yes it is long, and another reviewer said watch it on a cold wintry day when you have plenty of time. I couldn't agree more. You have to savor this film like a fine wine. Not gulp it down like swill for a cheap high. Too many films today are like the latter. All flash and no real story.
Great Movie January 31, 2010
Jacqueline Lipsky (Amesbury, MA USA)
The movie, Once Upon a Time in America, is long, but honestly, it needs to be long, in order to tell the whole story. "Deborah's Theme" is carried throughout the movie, enhancing feelings of sadness and pity, where needed. There's some sex and a lot of violence, and there's DeNiero being DeNiero. I love that guy! The acting and the directing are perfect. Everything in the movie seemed so authentic for that time period. I would have given it a different title, though; some people think the title makes it sound like a 'girly' movie. Overall, I loved it and will watch it again in the future.
Opium Nightmare? October 13, 2009
W. Jackson
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This flick may be the reason Leone stopped making them. Its framework is apparently a bad trip from smoking opium. Flashbacks and flashforwards make it hard to follow the antihero. The main characters suffer from low self-esteem or worse, especially the women who are submissive to rough sex and other abuse and like it (?) Never thought that female nudity would put me off, but here it's merely gross and rape scenes do not add to any appeal. Treachery and violence and odd cinematography abound for the artsy crowd. The whole mess could be just a series of bad dreams for all the sense many make; protagonists often have no motive and act contrary to their own best interests, selfish though they are depicted.
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