Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021) by Aceospades97 — 12 Oct 2021

This review will contain spoilers as I need to touch on some parts of the movie that made it bad.

It starts by telling you that Christopher is dead and that he's narrating from beyond and while the Sopranos ended in 07, it felt completely unneeded to give that spoiler especially that they said the moviis for everyone and not just people who watched the sopranos, so there you go, spoiled something big for anyone who might have become intrigued enough to watch the show just because you want to have someome narrate it like the good Scorcese films.

Making this into a movie, with a screen time of only two hours was a guaranteed disaster, as they try to cram so many storylines in the movie and ends up with the storylines being half-assed like the riots. While I have seen reviews touch on how this movie is offensive to Italian Americans, I will not touch on that as I am not a part of that group and I cant have any input on it , but the race thing was overused in the movie just with a message of showing that the characters are racist and kinda creates tension. The movie should've been made into a mini show because in the 2 hour screen time you wouldn't even grow any sort of attachment to those characters, they all seemed one dimensional, all wasn't too captivating which is understandable because even when you watch a show you need at least 4 episodes to start getting to know those characters and in this movie it just didn't do it. By the end of it I still didn't care about Dickey. The only upside of this movie is how it shows you that Junior was always a spiteful maniac and it puts a lid on Dickey's death, and casting choices were all good until it got to Silvio. I am a long time Sopranos fan and I was looking so forward to watch this and it resulted in a huge disappointment especially if you're looking for a Sopranos quality film. If you hadn't seen it don't waste your money on a ticket. David Chase was all over the place with this and it completely doesn't reflect what he's done with the Sopranos.