Great but could have been even better.

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2019)

A well made and generally accurate recreate of the remarkable penetration by undercover cop Joe Pistone of the American mafia in the 1970s.
Although considerable artistic licence has been taken with the the characters of the two main mob protagonists where Ruggeiro becomes the main focus of Brasco's friendship when in reality it was Sonny Black who he became closest too aside from that it stays fairly faithful to true events.
I did think however that there were missed opportunities for really ramping up the tension on those incidents in Brasco's undercover life when he was very near being rumbled by the gangsters. Instead these seemed generally downplayed.
But that's a small criticism and overall this is one of my favourite gangster films of any kind.