Good - no - Excellent Film

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2002)

I've watched Goodfellas at least 15 times and each time I'm entertained and this is why. The performances by all actors are superb. Even if you're not an organized crime genre fanatic, but like stories with struggle, success and corruption, then check it out.
The narrative style of story telling gives you the feeling you're a voyeur watching (as all film audiences do) with a sense that you're getting away with something. The first half is a story of young Henry's development from boy to young man and it's quite a fun trip. As a young man, he achieves a level of success within the organization he is a `member' of and has a lot o fun in the process. Then things get out of hand and there is a price for all the wrong doings of the past.
The last section's pace of the movie is awesome. You get the feeling your spinning out of control with Henry and Karen during a Sunday where there is a lot of `errands' to get done while the Feds watch. Paranoia is validated.
Scorsese's films do that to you. They make you feel what's going on with the characters in the story.