An epic film spanning nearly seven decades and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, Once Upon A Time In America is a movie about a group of friends who grow up on the cold, hard streets of New York City. They are ushered into lives of organized crime in the mob scene, where they experience backstabbing, greed, and the many vices that go along with the lifestyle. Even though the film was like a billion hours long (actually it was just under four), it didn’t seem like it at all. If you’ve got the time to rent this movie on DVD, sit down and watch it. A very enjoyable journey awaits you.

I usually like movies with the type of ending that this one had, but this was fully not worth the hour and a half wait to get there. Basically the entire movie goes like this: husband and wife go on vacation, they do it in their hotel room and then go scuba diving. The ship leaves without them and they surface to find themselves alone on an open ocean. Sharks come… the end.

Remarkable for being shot completely on DV footage (ie., it is not a film in the traditional sense), but otherwise I was pretty disappointed. I’d recommend reading a short spoiler instead of seeing the whole movie. Find it somewhere on the internet, it shouldn’t take too long.