Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021) by Mgunny61 — 02 Oct 2021

This movie is beyond just bad, it's disrespectful. David Chase and everyone else who wrote and produced this train wreck had to know that there were going to be two main audiences for this film. The biggest and most interested were going to be fans of the TV series.

The other audience was going to be those that were casual, or non watchers of the Sopranos. The fans were anxious for this film and have been loyally waiting for almost two years. The latter audience had been hearing about the Sopranos from the first group for years and were probably willing to see what all the hype was about.

As a member of the first group, I did my best to tamp down my own personal expectations as I know it was going to be hard for them to reproduce the quality of the series in a two hour movie. I get that.

However, I did expect Chase (who is always so condescending to the world about how he handled the series), would at least give it an honest effort? This is why I say it was disrespectful because they just threw together this piece of garbage and expected real fans to just be grateful we got anything? I wish they never did this movie, it only takes away from just how good the series was.

There are so many flaws in this movie, I wouldn't have enough space to write it all out. The story was not only lame, disjointed and at times boring as hell, but in the end made zero sense? Most of the acting was just people attempting poor impressions of the characters.

Sil and Paulie were especially bad. The film's good character acting: Dickie, Liv and the Italian girl were wasted by the silly plot and incoherent dialogue. Ray Liotta was cringe worthy. They did a decent job with the cars, clothes and street scenes but it was all wasted as you couldn't make heads or tails of how any of it fit together.

The last thing is that there is nothing about this film that will appeal to the new non Soprano fan. Just a waste of two hours.