Goodfellas

Goodfellas is the 1990 hit movie about mobster life in New York/New Jersey. Siskel and Ebert (inidicating how old the movie is) said this was the greatest mobster movie of all time.

I agree that this was a good movie. It stars and is narrated by Ray Liotta, best known for being the security guard who helped the Muppets escape from the evil scientist in Muppets from Space. He also had a minor role in a lesser-known movie called Field of Dreams portraying Shoeless Joe Jackson. Goodfellas also stars every other guy that always plays a mobster, except James Gandolfini. It does include Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, and Tony Darrow, who was in Sopranos with Gandolfini.

The movie starts in the 1950's with Liotta's character as a kid and follows him through life as he grows up in the mob. There's a lot of shickanery going on, lots of shooting, and lots of cussing. In fact, I think the movie could have been called Goodfukkas. Joe Pesci's character said 10 different words throughout the movie, of which 8 of those were derivations of the F-word.

The ending of the movie gets a little hokey. I started thinking, "really? This is getting a little silly." However, the movie is powerful and can get intense. If you are like me and had never seen this movie, get it from Netflix (it'll arrive in 2 weeks and then they'll pretend that you didn't return it for another 3) or get it from the library. It's worth your time. I give this movie 4 stars.