Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank SiveroDirector: Martin Scorsese
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Emily says:
This movie was great! I thought Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta were all excellent in this film. The characters are easy to relate to, invest in, and carry your interest throughout the film. Liotta's childhood dream of being in the mob starts the film off on a note that makes you love the characters, in spite of the terrible things that they will do later in the film. As they scam, steal, kill, and cheat, you love them in spite of it - mostly, I think, because like Liotta's character, there's a little bit of each of us that thinks organized crime is awesome.
Paul says:
Seriously, how many mob/heist films has Robert De Niro been in? Are there any in the last 20 years that he hasn't? I recently watched Casino too, and I swear this is the same movie, but that's fine. It's an entertaining film. Joe Pesci is suitably over-the-top as the guy with the Napoleon complex, Ray Liotta's scratchy voice for the narration strikes just the right tone, and his character is great. De Niro plays a somewhat smaller role, but does a good job with it. The most underappreciated here is probably Lorraine Bracco as the neurotic leeching wife. (I came to appreciate her as the incomparable Dr. Melfi in The Sopranos, how impressive is it that she's played both sides in mob cinema spectacularly?) The movie is pretty fast-paced, with a satisfying body count. It's really just unfair to American mob films though, since they have to measure up to The Godfather, an impossible task.
Rating: 8.5/10
Paul says:
Seriously, how many mob/heist films has Robert De Niro been in? Are there any in the last 20 years that he hasn't? I recently watched Casino too, and I swear this is the same movie, but that's fine. It's an entertaining film. Joe Pesci is suitably over-the-top as the guy with the Napoleon complex, Ray Liotta's scratchy voice for the narration strikes just the right tone, and his character is great. De Niro plays a somewhat smaller role, but does a good job with it. The most underappreciated here is probably Lorraine Bracco as the neurotic leeching wife. (I came to appreciate her as the incomparable Dr. Melfi in The Sopranos, how impressive is it that she's played both sides in mob cinema spectacularly?) The movie is pretty fast-paced, with a satisfying body count. It's really just unfair to American mob films though, since they have to measure up to The Godfather, an impossible task.
Rating: 8.5/10
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