superb

Rating: 8/10 (24 June 2003)

Definitely a movie that bears rewatching, Donnie Brasco, is - as the consensus of opinion here says - among the top rank of mob films, right up there with the Godfather epic, and certainly superior to the cheap, flashy and overrated "Goodfellas". I would say the character development and moral ambiguity in this movie is even more well-developed than in the Coppola movies. To repeat yet again what has been noted below many times, the venerable Al Pacino is at his best and Johnny Depp shows his chops as one of our best young actors, and the way they work together is one of the most superb instances of screen chemistry. Multi-faceted, gritty, realistic, touching, suspenseful - this movie is not to be missed.