Beat Scorsese Mob movie, period

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2019)

Be prepared and aware! This is in our day and age an exceptionally long film, so if you are not well rested wait until you are!! That said, this is in fact Scorsese's triumph of his mafia boss films. In particular he realizes and presents real life mobsters, while bringing out their nuances which few gangster films, if any, try to realize and successfully show on film! This includes the brilliant, as in New York/New Jersey speak and intellect, pitch perfect. Violence serves solely as punctuation, dialogue all-important, and the best-defined gangsters we have ever seen. Based on real life gangsters, arguably questionable confession, and what should be admittedly and pathetic inaccurate portrayal of prison life, Martin Scorsese brings us out of Coppola's gangster heyday to the elderly demise of that culture and characters.