Every Once Upon A Time Movie Ranked Worst To Best

One borough over and released a few months later, Once Upon A Time In Queens is essentially Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn if the "always plays gangsters" actor cast to play the guy just getting out of prison was simply a better performer.

In place of William DeMeo now we have Paul Sorvino, a Goodfellas veteran who actually brings some emotional depth to this sub-Scorsese fare.

Sorvino plays a Gotti-esque 80s mob boss released on probation after twenty years because of his failing health. On the outside he finds the Queens he knew changed beyond recognition. His daughter's gay and young people don't show any respect any more.

The script is packed with trite clichés about Italian-American communities in New York, along with a rose-tinted nostalgia for a time when the old fashioned mob ran the city. Sorvino, however, plays it all like a great drama and in so doing manages to elevate the material, if not to something genuinely compelling, at least to a noticeably better movie than Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn.