How I Fell in Love With a Gangster has the core of a really solid film, but its lack of selective editing results in a somewhat arduous three-hour watch.

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster is too overwrought with style and uneven in its storytelling to be taken seriously.

It’s a bit too long, but I Fell In Love With a Gangster relishes in that time spent with a central criminal character who could always grin his way out of trouble, right up until he couldn’t.

Most of the elements of a good gangster crime drama are here, but unfortunately, they don't make for a good movie.