Whoever is saying this movie is fantastic has either not seen Goodfellas, has forgotten how good Goodfellas is, or has never seen a Martin Scorsese film which basically is an identical version of this. I sat through it in three sessions watching it on Netflix. Perhaps it would have been different seeing the entire 3 1/2 hours on a big screen. But I doubt it. I thought the acting was simply the same , different day, snarling, violent caricatures that we have come to expect from the likes of Robert De Niro et al. Just watch Goodfellas again and you will be happier.