The Many Saints of Newark(The Many Saints Of Newark)

2021 • 120 Minuten

Über diesen Film

Im lang ersehnten Spielfilm „The Many Saints of Newark“ wird die Vorgeschichte zur bahnbrechenden und preisgekrönten HBO-Serie „Die Sopranos“ erzählt. Der junge Anthony Soprano wächst in der von sozialen Spannungen geprägten Zeit der Unruhen von Newark auf. Rivalisierende Gangsterbanden schließen sich zusammen, um den Alleinherrscheranspruch der Mafia-Familie DiMeo über die zunehmend von Rassenunruhen entzweiten Stadt in Frage zu stellen. In dieser Zeit des Wandels gerät Anthonys Onkel Dickie Moltisanti, den er vergöttert, zunehmend zwischen die Fronten. Dickie kann seine beruflichen und privaten Verpflichtungen nur mühsam miteinander vereinen, und unter seinem Einfluss wird aus seinem leicht zu beeindruckenden Neffen langsam der allmächtige Mafia-Boss Tony Soprano.

Bewertungen und Rezensionen

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.