They tell you more about this long film than any review would.

That is the best part. It is the only entertaining part. Otherwise, it is four hours of lame pastiche.

The version I am reviewing is called the directors cut. It is 4 hours and 11 minutes long! Leone was aiming for EPIC here but it feels more like overwrought and overly long. Not every Italian director is Bertolucci or even Coppola! This movie is about a old gangster who is summoned home and reflecting upon his youth and young adulthood as a gangster in same city. The actors do their usual best but poor plot lines and editing between flashback and current scenes bog down the film. The female leads are nothing but sex objects and there is no effort to flesh out or address their actions. Leone does a good job of giving screen time to all the child actors but as adults De Niro and Woods deserve and garner most of the screen time. There are several huge plot holes in the film I saw that are beyond the pale and greatly reduce the impact of this film.