Good movie but...

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2009)

Haven't we seen it all many times before? A boy wants to be a gangster, he becomes a gangster, he rises in ranks, gets very influential, very much money, girls, wives, drugs, killings, robberies and it all becomes to much for him. He can't cope and in the end he is redempted. To me it was just another gangster-movie.
Anyway, I found it enjoyable; the first half was good entertainment, and I found myself very interested in continuing watching. The story of Henry Hill was somewhat fascinating although it felt like I had seen it before. But then again, after some 100 minutes I'd had enough. The killings, drugs, money and "gangster-stuff" had done it's time and I just wanted to see how it ended and be over with it.
It must be said that I'm not a big fan of gangster-movies or Scorsese in general, but I can see that this is a good movie, although weaker than "The Departed", a very good, more original and Scorseses best, movie.
In conclusion "Goodfellas" is fairly entertaining, a movie I will watch again if it happens to be on TV on a boring day, but I won't buy it on DVD. Goodfellas is good, it's not great, and therefore overrated. 7/10