Tough guy, you and your brotha'! No more!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 1999)

This is my favorite mob movie. Say what you will about Goodfellas, this is better. The documentary style filming by Martin Scorcese during the first 40 minutes delves deep into the inner workings of a mob run casino. The first 40 minutes is brilliant. From there the movie chronicles Ace Rothstein's marriage, his business of running the casino, his hitman pal Nicky Santaro, and his wife's affair with Nicky. I really, really love Robert DeNiro and here he has a great supporting cast: Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, Don Rickles, James Woods, and Frank Vincent. All of them put on great performances. I love mob movies anyways but this one rocks. It's got a great soundtrack. Frank Vincent and Joe Pesci steal the show with the two best characters. And the ending scene of Joe Pesci and his brother being beaten to death with baseball bats in a corn field then buried alive to the tune of Eric Burdon's "The House Of The Rising Sun" is probably five of my most favorite minutes in film ever. And it will give you nightmares. I have the soundtrack, I have the movie. They both rule. #7 on my top 100 favorite movies.