The only mob film I genuinely enjoy

By this I mean I can watch multiple times.

I've always felt that films like the Godfather romanticise and glorify the mafia. They show them as being gentlemen with rules and a sense of fairness and nobility. Maybe it is like that, I don't know, but it never quite sat right with me that these guys are effectively being portrayed as bad guys guy who only do bad things to other bad guys, when in reality 'civilians' suffer great violence and abuse from them, as well as financial loses.

Here it showed what I feel is a more accurate portrayal of mob life. Again, I'm no expert on the mob, but the killing of 'friends' without evidence based on orders and the intentional screwing over of others that will lead to their deaths seems to fit in much more.

I enjoyed the later seasons of the Sopranos more because of this. I felt they tried too hard to portray all the characters as anti-heroes at the start, but then gradually got to showing them more as the violent sociopaths they truly are with a few restraints as the show went on.

The depiction of Lefty complaining how he gets passed over for promotion after all he's done and how he never has any money despite being a wise guy while the guys on top get to live it large painted a different picture to what we usually see, like how in Goodfellas, our trio aren't made-men but seem to be living it up as if they were the leaders of the mob.