Back in the Day

A very good sports drama film about the life story of Anthony Rodriguez and 'The Lords of Brooklyn', which is a kind of crossover between Goodfellas and Rocky.

Cristian demeo plays a younger version of william demeo in this horrible goodfellas rocky rip off. Cris is more horrible than his dad William. William demeo plays Lefty a 60 year old predophiler who wants to go into boxing. The only good actor was Michael Madsen who did this for a paycheck.

William, I'm such a new fan only seeing him in Gotti. So I'm currently watching all of his catalog. I'm not mad at his efforts. He writes and acts. Its a little slow, the plot is unique. The acting is okay. I'd watch it again.

Anyone who has given more than say, 3 out of ten, is either part of the production or a friend thereof. How anyone could actually give this film 10 stars is beyond the realms of credibility. This is essentially a vanity project. The acting across the board was dreadful, the direction was about the worst I've ever seen. The editing is awful. It's like a roughcut in places. Such dubious stunts. It's full of terrible clichés from start to end. Thematically, it's a void. The Mike Tyson cameo is ludicrous. This should be shown on film courses to illustrate how bad films can be. I had the impression this was made in a couple of weeks. Sorry, but this was terrible.

Completely copied from multiple great movies, it seems like William tried to put together goodfellas and Rocky. The acting is absolutely horrible, other than Alec Baldwin. William DeMeo should not be blamed, the person or people who told him he could act should be blamed. Christian DeMeo was either forced against his will to be in this movie by his father or was brainwashed when he was young that his father was a good actor.

Do not waste your time. This movie was the most boring movie I saw. Idiotic script, incredibly wooden acting (Madsen and Baldwin are fine, but then they should be). A very hard movie to watch because of the screenplay, the acting and the direction. I'm only twenty minutes in but oh my god this is bad. Everything about it is terrible: writing, directing, acting, photography, sets, music, even the stunts. I'm disturbed that the user ratings are as high as they are. I don't understand how films like this get made of funded. I understand the need to "wash" money but why invest in this garbage. The worst actor was Cris Demeo who cannot act and probably got the role because William DeMeo is the lead actor, producer and director. Not surprised as I have never seen Cris demeo in any film unless william demeo is in it.

This has to be the most pathetic attempt to steal from the movies a bronx tale, mean, streets, goodfellas and rocky. No script pr storyline. No cinematography and bad music soundtrack. Its as if the lead actor wants to live out his fantasy of being Rocky. The story focuses on Lefty played by the shows producer, director, camera man and scriptwriter william demeo who at the of 59 wants to make a boxing comeback. The younger version is played by cris demeo who is such a bad actor you wonder how he really gets any role. Do not waste your time on this trash movie.

This movie could have been worse but I don't know how. To be fair, the make-up was pretty good. Other strong points were the costumes, the sound and some of the stunt work. There were actually 2 or 3 legitimate actors involved which might say something about either their desperate financial situation or owing someone a favor. On the minus side, some of the stunt work was bad, the acting amateur hour, the script was pathetic and the direction stunk. Who in their right mind financed this joke is the main question the viewer is left with. And that's why it's a troubling experience, even a painful one to watch Back in the Day. Like the title, a bad cliché from start to long awaited finish. And for those who like boxing movies this one will make you rush to a musical. It doesn't deserve a 1 but there's no 0 option.

Watch this Movie last Night is good the Cast is very good Alec Baldwin Shannen Doherty Mike Tyson Danny Glover Michael Madsen and Annabella Sciorra

I really like boxing movies, so when I read the summary and saw the cast I thought this was going to be a pretty good flick...I watched the whole movie, but never really got into it. The boxing lead didn't come off as a very good actor and I had a lot of trouble buying Shannen Doherty as the love interest he spent so long pining away for. I'm sure they are close in actual age, but Doherty looks like she's in her mid 50's in this movie and she's not in very good shape, which made the flashbacks to when they younger look kind of weird. I think the screenplay itself was probably fine, this movie just needed a slightly different cast along with better directing...