An excellent story, a better film

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2008)

Goodfellas, although somewhat exaggerated in a few situations, follows pretty closely, the life and uncertain times of the half Irish half Italian wannabe wise-guy, Henry Hill. From his teenage years running errands for the neighborhood Mafioso's while rising through the ranks by hijacking truckloads of cigarettes, to him being on top of his limited but somewhat powerful mob world, to the deepest part of a cocaine addiction and digging shallow graves to bury a not dead body that was in the trunk of his car. All in all, this depiction of the wise-guy lifestyle, along with the actions taken by these men in order to carry on with this lifestyle, is done in a way that has oft been imitated but never duplicated. A wonderful story, made into a superb film.