"Finest Ganster movie ever made"

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 1999)

Joe Pesci's incredibly terrifying psychopath.Tommy De Vitos relentless intimidation elevated pub quotation games to new heights.Scorsese's Goodfellas is possibly the finest gangster movie ever made. Liotta puts across just enough charm to make him the anti-hero for the early 90's. De Niro gives one of the most menacing performances of his career, and Lorraine Bracco wonderfully contradicts the downtrodden, housebound view of the gangsters moll that we have come to accept, her vendetta against her husbands girlfriend a joy. The steadicam shot is often regarded as the high point of the movie, but for its entire two-and-a-half-hour running time, moments like that come along all the time, the whole film a visual feast. The trick with Goodfellas is its searing honesty, Scorsese shys away from nothing, showing graphic violence in all of its beautiful brutality, and switching the upbeat, often lighthearted first half of the movie with the coke-induced paranoia of the second act is masterfully done. The dialogue is superb, supplying film buffs with line after line to quote to unenlightened friends and relatives, and,just in case you wanted to know-the "F" word is used 246 times.