"As Far Back As I Remember I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster"

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2020)

One word: Flawless. This film devours the meaning of great acting and great direction and swallows it up, now Martin has directed a lot of flawless pictures, but this is honestly up to par with The Godfather as one of the best movies of all time, this movie is nothing but pure greatness and an example of what other movies should be but aren't. Martin Scorsese is directing an amazing picture but spitting in other director's faces in the process because nobody's better at this than he is, he said he would never return to the genre of crime drama or gangster films ever again. And jeez am I happy he did making gangster movies such as; Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed and The Irishman. Film of the 1990's and deserves its' praise. SPOILERS FROM NOW ON: There is one scene (which I am obviously gonna spoil) where Jimmy thinks Tommy is being made, but Tom notices a bit too late he fell into a trap, the people who offered him this were friends of Billy (the guy he kills by shooting around three times and hides the body) they had just found out that he killed their friend, they shot him in the head. Now the opening line is possibly the most quotable line in film history, "As far back as I remember I always wanted to be a gangster". Not only does this line set you up for the entire theme of the movie, the narration in this film is possibly the most perfect narration ever put in film, we see Henry's perspective and his wife Karen's perspective, both points of view. Violence is like the main character in this movie and is the best performance, the film should have won a lot of Academy Awards and that's based on actual facts. Grade: A+