The Many Saints of Newark - Une histoire des Soprano

2021 • 120 minutes

À propos de ce film

« The Many Saints of Newark - Une histoire des Soprano » est le long-métrage tant attendu et préquelle de la novatrice série dramatique primée de HBO, Les Soprano. Le jeune Anthony Soprano grandit dans l'ère tumultueuse des émeutes de Newark et devient un adulte alors que des gangsters rivaux se décident à défier la toute-puissante famille criminelle DiMeo et leur emprise sur cette ville en proie aux conflits raciaux. Au milieu de ces événements charnières se trouve l'oncle qu'il admire, Dickie Moltisanti, qui tente tant bien que mal de jongler entre les responsabilités de sa vie professionnelle et personnelle. Son lien avec son neveu l'aidera à transformer cet adolescent influençable en un parrain de la mafia redoutable que l'on connaîtra plus tard sous le nom de Tony Soprano.

Notes et avis

I usually enjoy movies from this timeline and setting but not this one. Performances and direction were good and very convincing but the plot and character development were very poor. Watched this movie for good 2 hrs and had no idea what was going on or what the story is trying to tell. Too many characters with no background build or check, yeah you can easily get bored with this one, very forgettable.

The single worst movie experience I have ever had. It was a horrible mess of a story. It has made me lose faith in cinema. The show references were utter garbage and just shallow. I remember my mother used to beat me with a spoon and I would rather go back to that than to watch this piece of trash again.

3 and a half out of 5. While I never saw The Sopranos TV show yet, I still felt this was a tense and scary look at rising crime in the 60s with different gangs. One thing that was interesting and tense was that some of these people killed others easily and not much security was around and when it seemed to be around it was during riots. There was a couple arrests in the film I think a couple however. . A interesting crime thriller prequel, one that tells Tony's story well more towards the end.