The director wanted his bloody, dirty-talking study of small-time Mafiosos to have the spirit of “a rollicking road picture,” and he achieved this paradoxical goal brilliantly. The picture only seems amoral. Behind its grinning mask it is an acute parody of “family values” and of moral incomprehension. And Joe Pesci is awesome as the most psychopathic of hoods.
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