It is a creative and incredible take on a era of glamorized crime.

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2015)

This movie has insatiable action, from the get-go, and puts the viewer in the front seat with the characters. The movie is well narrated by the main character, as it's his actual experiences within La Cosa Nostra. Even though the Italian mafia at the time was feared and immensely powerful, this film shows the psychology of the characters, and it displays all facets of their lives. We usually only receive one perspective; however this film shows off the relationships of Henry Hill from all aspects. It starts when he was a young boy, and with a surname like Hill, one wonders how he could be part of an underground Italian organization? These are the details the movie focuses on, the finer specifics, it's not all gun blazing and assassinations. I'd advise this flick, because it exhibits the interactions, relationships, hardships, choices, struggles of an individual rising through the ranks of a crime family.