The best movie of the 80s, according to the audience, it is!

Once Upon a Time in America, the final work of the famous Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, is the best feature film made in the 1980s, according to the average audience ratings found on AlloCiné.

With a score of 4,497 stars out of 5, this river film not only marks the end of Leone’s career – as the director would die 5 years after its release – but also its famous conclusion. Time TrilogyInitiated in 1968 with Once in the West, which explored the conquest of America, and continued once in a revolution, harkening back to the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century.

Therefore, this third and final part follows David Aaronson’s character, alias Noodles (played by Robert De Niro in one of his greatest roles), through three important periods of his life: his youth in 1922, in the Jewish Quarter. New York, its rise to the underworld in 1933 with total prohibition and its return to the city 35 years later in 1968.

Driven by Ennio Morricone’s magnificent score and a loosely woven screenplay that Leone spent more than a decade preparing, this masterful, overwhelming, and brutal mural recreates not only an entire stretch of American history, but also the whole. About a man’s life: his friendship, his first love, his choice, his regret.

In its full version with a duration of 3 hours and 49 minutes, which the French public was able to discover as it was, it was once abundantly planned in America, when it was released in the United States in June 1984, it was shortened. 2 hours and 19 minutes before landing in dark rooms. The amputation that also broke Sergio Leone’s heart.

A true commercial failure on release, Leone’s latest film has nevertheless entered the pantheon of cinema, regularly cited among the great classics and awarded by the average press, more impressive than the audience: 4.9 stars out of 5!

downOnce upon a time in AmericaAccording to AlloCiné viewers, on the podium of the best films of the 80s we find Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (4.482 out of 5), Back to the Future (4.447 out of 5), The Tomb of the Fireflies (4.422 out of 5) and Star Wars Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (4.407 out of 5).

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