After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
"GoodFellas" is just one of the movies that did this all much better before.
– Farran Smith Nehme,
New York Post,
3 May 2013
rotten:
Packing the screen with wiseguy-story regulars - like Vincent Pastore and a limp Tony Darrow, perhaps distracted by his recent legal difficulties - is fruitless when your movie is as pathetically inept as this one.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
2 May 2013
rotten:
Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2013
rotten:
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn's vision of the Mafia comes filtered through a needlessly complex screenplay, as if the creators felt the need to prove they've seen a few Arnaud Desplechin films alongside Goodfellas.