Review of GoodFellas (1990) by Emile H — 10 Jan 2017
Damn, is this what it looks like to be a gangster? It might as well be. Martin Scorsese sees every detail of the lives of the wiseguy Henry Hill from rise to fall. Ray Liotta plays him with every inch of realism, playing it cool from the start and a paranoid wreck near the end.
The best moments are when he, DeNiro, and Pesci are on screen, because it's both homely and tense. The rest of the cast is amazing it's like family on film. As it goes, the colors get less vibrant and the violence gets more brutal.
In Scorsese's strongest film, the gangsters live like movie stars, and thus the film runs with major muscle.
This review of GoodFellas (1990) was written by Emile H on 10 Jan 2017.
GoodFellas has generally received very positive reviews.
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