Alan Taylor
Without Gandolfini, without any sort of revelation, we’re left with a movie that sort of resembles The Sopranos but feels more like a cheap knock off.
The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel film to The Sopranos, never quite reaches the heights of its television show predecessor.
Sequels sell like hotcakes. Filmgoers cannot be faulted for summing up today’s film industry simply as that. We don’t really need to draw up any charts or statistics to figure out that half of the films in 2015 consist of sequels.
Along with Mad Max, another franchise is getting a reboot next year, and that’s Terminator. After the fourth installment, Terminator Salvation, in 2009, which was, to say gently, not a big success, Genisys is to breathe new life into the franchise. The first trailer for the upcoming Schwarzenegger movie was released yesterday – check it out now: