The Best movie of 1990

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2014)

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas is an epic historical mob film which is similar to Bugsy, and American Gangster. The movie tells the story of how Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) and his mob friends Jim Conway (played by Robert De Niro), Tommy De Vito (played by Joe Pesci), and Paul Cicero (played by Paul Sorvino), ended up working their way up through the mob hierarchy. What Martin Scorsese tries to show not only how the mob underworld, but he also tries to show us how brutal the mob can really be against their own crime family members. Also without question Martin Scorsese is one of the world's greatest film directors, thanks to great movies like Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and his Oscar wining turn for The Departed. Both Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta give the best performances of their careers in Scorsese's well done mob picture. And another thing Scorsese tries to show us in this movie is the conflicts between Henry and his wife Karen (played perfectly by Lorraine Bracco). This was a mob movie achievement and of what I thought was an absolutely great movie.