A Modern Gangster Film Brought to Epic Proportions

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2010)

In short, what happens when you get Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci together in a gangster film told by Martin Scorsese, and stretch it to three hours in length? Pretty much the greatest crime movie of all time. It has the look and feel of "Goodfellas", but focuses less on the mafia and more on one man's drive to get to the top and avoid the Feds (who at one point actually land in his yard when their spying helicopter runs out of gas).
The casting of Sharon Stone is a bit questionable. Not to say she did a bad job, but when you see who else all auditioned, it is odd that she pulled ahead. Stone is now more or less a relic of the 1990s. I would like to have seen Traci Lords or Melanie Griffith take the role of Ginger.
Scorsese pretty much never fails, and his track record with DeNiro is strong... this ranks as one of their best films together, no doubt.