A great movie about real life mobsters

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 1999)

This has to be one of the best movies about mob life ever made. Watching DeNiro, Liotta and Pesci's characters grow up in a life where theft and violence is commonplace is really something. One of the most amazing things about this film is the way in which Scorcese gets his actors to display such a calm attitude toward one aspect of life and then immediately switch to brutality and killing one minute later. I counted at least three examples of this phenomenon, but I will not explain them, lest I spoil the movie for someone else.
Although this movie was released the same year as Godfather III, it still stands on its own, due to the fact that it shows us another, lower level of organized crime. I would highly recommend both Goodfellas and the Godfather III as well as another very well portrayed movie called A Bronx Tale. Finally, if you want to really have a mob movie fest, watch Goodfellas and then watch My Blue Heaven. This is a Steve Martin comedy, but the movie starts right where Goodfellas leaves off.