Great movie, watched it yesterday after finishing the Man with No name trilogy and Once Upon A Time In The West. It outshines OUTITW by a long mile. The movie was very clever in it's direction, the uncut directors version provides a grittier look at the world and its characters, exposing their motives.
I really liked the ending and it was well worthy the 4+ hours. I'd give it a 9.5/10 but for the sake of this I put 5 stars. Quite nearly a perfect gangster movie.