Brilliance in a nutshell!

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2005)

The tense start the outstanding finish, this film delivers everything you wanted to know about the gangster world. The film follows the life of Henry Hill, a half Italian, half American 34 year old gangster. He first gets involved with the crew and the leader Paulie (Paul Sorvino) as a teenagers, selling cigarettes on the street. Also during the film's huge runtime, we find out about his friendship with Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), Jimmy Conway (Bobby De Niro) and his wife Karen Hill (Lorraine Bracco). After over 2 and a quarter hours of runtime, it finally winds down to the finale with Henry giving evidence into the killings of his friends in the motley crew in exchange for immunity. Yet another Scorsese smasher to look out for in the future.