Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021) by Jddallas — 03 Oct 2021

IMO one of the GREAT MOB movies I've seen yet..WAAAYYY better than THE IRISHMAN. Kinda getting trashed by the fanbois but what did you expect? And maybe this IS where creators should have seen this coming.

You're trying to FOLLOW about 70 one-hour episodes of the MAFIA spanning the entire decade of the 2000s (The Sopranos) with a measly 2-hr PREQUEL with COMPLETELY fresh characters and you thought this would satisfy THAT fanbase.

This was marketed as a TONY SOPRANO origin story but about 20 minutes in I didn't care one bit about Fat Little Tony and only wanted to explore Dickie, The Ray Liotta character, the new black guy, Tony's mother.

What a fascinating world and 10x harder to pull of than The Sopranos cuz they're making a period piece as opposed to Sopranos unfolding in real time (with no special sets clothes cars etc). I hope the plan all along was to make this its own thing much like the Star Treks: it started with Kirk & Spock but entire franchises blossomed from this to the point that you had complete new universes that didnt need to reference back to Kirk & Spock and the Enterprise to succeed.

I wish the Many Saints of Newark could "boldly go" in the same fashion.