The thing with Gangster films is that if it isn’t handled by a responsible filmmaker, it will end up looking like an imitation of a previously made great gangster film. Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas came at a time when there was an array of great Gangster Flicks to look up to. There were the Godfather Films, Brian De Palma’s Scarface and The Untouchables and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America. These films were milestones, already established as reference materials to any script that aspired
