with such a promising cast and a director that i have hear great thing about and i be utterly disappoint by this film . it start off with sign of a great epic gangster tale and turn into a completely muddle mess with many unanswered question and some completely ridiculous and pointless scene . ( and yes i do watch the full length version ) . i love robert deniro and as usual he do a fine act job and but in all his other gangster film and no matter how many people he kill and i always still have respect for his character and but in this movie he be a lowlife drug addict and rapist with no care for anyone but himself . also and james wood and another fine actor and have some completely ridiculous scene write for him . i think the part where robert deniro call him crazy and he flip out come completely out of left field and towards the end the writer just throw in this random comment about how his father die in a nut house and that why james wood do not like be call crazy . so much be leave undeveloped in this movie . also and we never find out who the men be in the beginning that be try to kill noodle and we never find out more about joe pesci character . it seem that the writer throw together about five different story and never fully explain any of them . the only redeeming quality of the film be the story when the character be young kid . the story run smoothly in this part of the movie and the kid do a great acting job . overall and i be thoroughly disappoint by this movie and i do not see how anyone can even compare this to the godfather 1 and 2 and or even goodfellas . i be sad that i waste four hour of my life watch this film .