Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021) by Xicoto3781 — 04 Oct 2022

Whose brilliant idea was it to make Dickie Moltisanti the main character? We don't know him, we don't care about him, and the movie did nothing to make us care. Christopher talking from the dead didn't work. When Dickie dies it means nothing to us. Hollywood Dick was even worse, and very poorly over-acted by Ray Liotta. The story should have centered around young Tony Soprano.

Then the other half of the story is about 1960s black people in New Jersey, who also weren't a part of The Sopranos and hold no interest to us. Just thrown in to make it woke 60 years later.

The movie was nothing more than a series of the writers thinking they're so clever with oblique references to things that happened on The Sopranos. The scene with baby Christopher being afraid of Tony was retarded. Mentioning Frank Sinatra Jr. who they later played cards with, stupid. Showing the house Livia later lived in. Tony hanging around Holsten's. Artie Bucco. Boring. I'm surprised they didn't show Dr. Melfi as a child coming out of a psychiatrist's office.

And what is this with putting the guy from House of Cards in every single movie that needs a bald guy? He did a good job in House of Cards. Since then, everything he's done has been completely uninteresting, including playing Mr. Magoo Junior Soprano. I thought Sil was around 50 in The Sopranos. He looked 50 here.

Very poor effort for something that could have been very good.