Martin Scorsese's perfectly acted, brilliantly made if violent and foul-mouthed Mafia saga is a chillingly scary, vibrant movie with a frightening blackly comic edge. Ray Liotta is at his finest as Henry Hill, a war baby who grows up with gangsters and dreams only of being one. He makes dangerous friends such as Jimmy the Gent (Robert De Niro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar), an unpredictable hit-man who only stops talking for long enough to shoot someone over some (often imagined) insult. These are all `goodfellas', but Henry's world of glittering nightclubs and easy cheating on his wife starts to slide downhill once he gets involved with drugs. Scorsese, who finally won an Oscar for The Departed, directs what is arguably his best film like a man inspired.
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