Customer Reviews
Great film, awful disc - By: Mark, 01 Jun 2008 
I didn't read the reviews before I bought it, because I knew what a great film it is.
Big mistake, because I wouldn't have bought it if I'd read them.
It's a double sided disc, which means you have to get up halfway through & turn it over. Why? Why do this?
It's also a poor quality transfer (as another reviewer said, it's barely better than VHS).
Avoid this version like the plague.
Well done though slightly long - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 09 Apr 2008 
A long film about "Italian" crime in New York in the 1950-1980 period, & a good one at that. It shows the brutality & the extreme male chauvinism of these gangsters who are ready to sell anything, steal anything, kill anyone in order to make money, & as for killing, to satisfy their insatiable thirst for blood, to satisfy their unquenchable hunger for violence. It also shows, rather on the side because it is not the main object, how justice & before it the police are managing their gang-spirit, splitting their unity & getting the weaker ones to become protected witnesses, & it works: these criminals prefer being hidden away by the Justice Department for decades rather than going away in prison for even longer periods of time. The film is well done: Robert de Niro & Joe Pesci are quite acceptable. Ray Liotta on the other hand appears slightly weak when confronted to the other two, & he has to be since he is the side-kick, & an essential one at that, of both of them. One shortcoming though: even if the police managed to more or less bring the Italians back in line, the film is absolutely silent about the fact that the various traffics & particularly drugs were then abandoned to another mafia, probably even more dangerous, i.e. the Blacks & the Porto Ricans & other Latinos.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
WHAT A FILM! - By: Ms. J. D. Penn, 02 Mar 2008 
this film was awsome, i have never given gangster films a chance, i always thought of them as blokes films but i gave goodfellas a go. the acting was spot on, along with the story line, effects etc etc, everything was brill!! i could have watched it again straight after. i reallly reallly enjoyed every second of it, & i have now watch many more gangster films but this is by far my favourite. De Niro is a superb actor & pulls of his part with style. if you havent watched this movie you are missing out. 10/10
Classic Gangster Flick - By: Shaky Hands, 25 Feb 2008 One of the best Gangster movies ever made, A must see for everyone.
If you have never seen this film then what are you waiting for.....buy it now & watch it, you will not be disappointed.
A great 90-minute movie dragged out over two-and-a-half hours - By: Trevor Willsmer, 31 Jan 2008 
Following the progress of gangster Ray Liotta & his relationship with mentors Robert De Niro & Joe Pesci, Goodfellas is the kind of film you'll either think is a masterpiece or wonder what alll the fuss was about. Performances are alll outstanding, Scorsese's direction energetic & innovative, but somewhere around the halfway point you may wonder where it's going & come to the conclusion that great performances & grandstanding direction is alll its about. There's no shortage of outstanding scenes but the film becomes increasingly repetitive as it underlines & escalates its variations on a theme until it feels like it's alll style with nothing more underneath than a two-and-a-half hour episode of Lifestyles of the Rich & Infamous.
Good extras on the two-disc version, but it's hard to buy into alll the hype for the film.
