Jarrad Lavoie

This is my favorite "Mob Film" of all-time. It's a somewhat true story about a real mob family and the people in that family. "Some stories were exaggerated", according to the director and Henry Hill, who was played by Ray Liotta in the film, "but it is still 95% accurate". Joe Pesci's performance as Tommy was incredible. He was my favorite character to be honest, he was extremely violent and sadistic, but also hilarious. Robert De Niro was amazing as usual as Jimmy Conway, he was intimidating when he wanted to be, and then absolutely terrifying on cue. Paul Sorvino played Paulie, who was essentially the boss, or the "Don", and his performance was terrific also because he doesn't try to oversell him being tough, or intimidating, but he absolutely is when the time calls for it. And Ray Liotta, the performance he did in this movie was absolutely, without question, an amazing job. He played Henry Hill so well it's scary 😂 he almost makes u think that's how Ray Liotta is in real life. Such a great movie. The story is great, the way it's told is perfect. Martin Scorsese is a genius and he proves it the way this movie plays out. He kept me captivated and wanting more the entire time I watched it. I literally did not want this movie to ever come to an end, I wish it just kept going on. It's lengthy at 2 hours 26 minutes, but every second of it is entertaining.

I was dialed in completely the first time I watched this film. I was only a senior in high school when this came out, but even then I knew this was a great story, or collection of short stories rather. The acting was on point, the overall creepy, dark feel was felt throughout the entirety of the movie from start to finish. The disturbing subject matter, combined with the black and white imagery made this such an unnerving, yet exciting and satisfying experience. Great selection of actors to play these roles,with Elijah Wood actually being my favorite. His maniacal and sadistic performance really surprised me to be honest. The craziest thing is he never utters a single word the entire time he's on screen. It's a star studded cast and believe it or not, they all did an amazing job. I've seen this probably a dozen times at least. Not for younger children if anyone is wondering 😂