Most people would probably go with THE GODFATHER as the greatest mobster film of all time but this is the one I would choose and I've re-watched it way more times than Francis Ford Coppola's epic.
What can you say about this movie? Everyone and their Uncle Nickie knows this movie inside and out and probably quotes it on a semi-regular basis. Martin Scorsese re-invents and perfects the gangster movie and it's all based on actual events. He also proves that he is one of the most important American filmmakers ever. Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci would both go on to become walking parodies of their on-screen personas partially due to the popularity of this film. Ray Liotta would go on to have his brains eaten in that Hannibal Lecter movie and Mr. Scorsese would go on to pretty much remake this a few years later as CASINO and that movie was also just about equally amazing. In this one you get an iconic kitchen knife stabbing, a foot shot off and plenty of beatings and shootings to go around. Also interesting and unique is the way the voice-over narration jumps from one character to the next giving you differing points of view to create a believable world of criminal hi-jinks. Martin Scorsese's mom shows up playing Pesci's mom which is one of my favorite scenes just because it seems so silly in the middle of such a deadly serious course of actions. Easily one of the best films to come out of the awful decade known as the 90's. If you haven't seen this yet what the fuck are you waiting for?
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