The "Kingpin" of Gangster films !

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2007)

This movie is one of the few exceptions where everything works and everything is excellent.
The Acting is very good.
The Writing is "dead-on" brilliant and comes from a best-seller masterpiece.
The Cinematography is a very good visual presentation and the Set Design is very true to the '40s time period.
The director Coppola makes due with all the right elements despite having a history of not making as many good book-to-movie adaptations like "The Outsiders" and "Apocalypse Now."
This is both one of the films movie-lovers should see before they die and simply because it inspired tons of movies in this genre that were nothing compared to this masterpiece.