Funko-Pop Goodfellas

Rating: 6/10 (29 November 2019)

This film was a bit of a disappointment.
I guess I bought into the hype because I was really looking forward to this but the reality fell somewhat short of the myth.
First: the elephant
The plastic looking CGI heads were extremely distracting especially Joe Pesci's which regularly looked too big for his tiny body. The others were off-putting but Pesci's was a veritable "Cavill's moustache".
This is a wonderfully made semi-fictional historical biopic with all the sumptuous attention to detail that you'd expect from the talent and money involved.
There were several slow-motion living tableaux moments that were absolutely breathtaking in their depiction of the raw emotional ugliness that emerges as a national drama unfolds.
These were astonishing and for me the absolute highlights of this film.
The main cast were uniformly impressive and I particularly enjoyed seeing Ray Romano playing against type.
Sadly though and despite the context, the story was just a bit too familiar. The mobsters, the hitman, the killings....we've seen it all before....and we've seen it better.
I realise Scorsese loves this material and this is his love-letter to it but I just found it all a bit dull. No surprises, no excitement and ultimately, for me, no engagement.