Terrific mobster film

Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2007)

The book, "Wise Guys", is better than the film "Goodfellas", still, this is a very good movie. Told from the viewpoint of Ray Liotta who plays Henry Hill. Liotta rises from a boy doing errands for the mob to a high post, although, because he is not 100% Italian, he can never become a "made man." He marries Lorraine Bracco, a naive girl who gets entrapped into being the wife of a mobster and grows to actually like it. She aids her husband at every turn.
The real star of this film though, is Joe Pesci. He plays mobster Tommy DeVito. I'd have to say that Pesci's character is probably one of the scariest ever portrayed in film, a true Jekyll and Hyde personality who can laugh with you one minute and brutally murder you the next. Very creepy.
Robert DeNiro plays James 'Jimmy' Conway, another mobster.
Goodfellas is a film that cashes in on The Godfather idea. The Godfather is truly one of the all-time great films. Goodfellas is a terrific film but doesn't match The Godfather. Still, it's well worth seeing. Be warned. The F word is used liberally in the film and you will not like the violence.
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