Very interesting...not the godfather thank god!!!!!!!!!!!!or scarface!

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2010)

I approached this as just a piece of entertainment to be had on a Saturday night, I did not approach this film as someone who has a hard on for the following films Scarface, The Godfather, Goodfellas. Although these films have there merits they are just films not religions or golden nuggets of s**t Cr***ed down onto the earth by the great almighty and it seems to me from some of the reviews I have read no one should even attempt to ever again make a film about organised crime even if the story happens to be based on true facts and happens to be an interesting story unlike the godfather which a lot of people keep saying this should not be uttered in the same breath as, in truth it shouldn't the films and stories are completely different this happens to be interesting whereas the godfather happens to be an overlong poorly put together pointless piece of nonsense that happens to be made by a director that makes Ridley Scott look like a cinematic genius even though this is a guy that made black rain, g.i Jane and white squall, that said I did enjoy this film the depth of the story probably would have been better used if spanned across a T.V show like the wire as it does have a lot of depth and there is a lot of things going on so the fact that Ridley Scott has been able to put all of this together into a two and a half hour long movie in my opinion is impressive and it stands as one of his better films and probably his best since Gladiator