This movie makes you want to be a gangster!

Rating: 9/10 (2 February 2008)

This movie makes you want to be a gangster! Its's a dark, harsh film that actually manages to glorify gangsters. Director Martin Scorcese's obsession for the characters and the extraordinary lives they lead is truly demonstrated here.
He shines throughout as he manages to entertain, and keep the audience interested, for over two hours. The book might be better, but "GoodFellas" is one Scorsese-De Niro collaboration in which De Niro is often not the most important person on screen when he is on screen. He's good, but Liotta is classic in the central role, a performance for the ages in fact, while Pesci made for a deserved Oscar recipient with the way he inhabits Tommy the walking Id and delivers "GoodFellas" message of how the good life isn't all that good, that there's always something rotten beneath the surface that will reach up and grab you at the wrong time.
This movie should have been Martin Scorsese's best director Oscar. His directorial skills would never be better.