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Plot Summary
Sergio Leone's original vision comes to life in this fully restored Extended Director's Cut. Twenty-two minutes of never-before-seen footage have been returned to this chronicle of brutal and passionate underworld history, deepening the characters and enlarging the work of its astonishing cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong pals whose rise as crime kingpins unravels in death and corruption. Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams and Louise Fletcher (the latter three showcased in recovered scenes) also star. The newly added 22 minutes of extended scenes bring us closer to Leone's original vision of the film, but due to the limited availability of 35mm work prints, the new inserts could not be restored to the same quality as the rest of the film.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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89%- Reviews Counted: 45
- Fresh: 40
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 8.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions.
Fresh: The film slips easily back and forth in time, dancing between the decades, often making the connection from one era to another solely by means of brilliant cuts that work like magic.
Fresh: As one would expect from Leone, the film is a brilliant stylistic accomplishment.
Fresh: There are times when we don't understand exactly what is happening, but never a time when we don't feel confidence in the film's narrative.
Customer Reviews
A Film to Remeber
Here we have the anti-gangster movie. It’s a film that deglamorizes the lives of hateful people, where gang members that did terrible things age and look back at a life of bad memories and regret. It's novelesque and quite a challenge to sit through, but it's a sweeping piece of filmmaking. It's breathtaking and simply beautiful. This is one of those films that will stay with me till the day I die, and quite frankly, one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
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