Siskel & Ebert - Donnie Brasco

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review the 1997 crime film "Donnie Brasco". Both gave the movie two thumbs up!

[@vegetasolo1221]

Donnie Brasco is a classic

[@jadezee6316]

I agree..the whole movie boils down to the viewer wanting to save leftie

[@ebn128]

RIP both of these gentlemen, great reviewers

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

"Give it to your wife!" "I don't have a wife." "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yeah." "Then marry her, and give it to her!"

[@ScootyPuffSr7]

"Anne Heche plays the long suffering spouse . ." Then they proceed to show a clip where you don't even see her face. 😂

[@mattclayer6541]

Mike Newell is an underrated director.

[@Hutchyy]

What are your other favourites by him?

[@mattclayer6541]

@@Hutchyy This one of course. But i also really like "Four weddings and a funeral" and "Enchanted April". He also directed one of my favorite Harry Potter movies🙂

[@Hutchyy]

@@mattclayer6541 nice 👍have you seen Bad Blood? That's meant to be good too

[@ragingbull2271]

This film is a criminally underrated neo-noir gangster masterpiece along with Carlito's Way!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Definitely not neo-noir.

[@peartalks3876]

@@ricardocantoral7672 it is

[@ricardocantoral7672]

@@peartalks3876 No, it isn't. Noir protagonists are quite troubled and if they are cops ,they are usually alienated from their peers. Also, such films have a distinctive, swarthy look.

[@tarman2752]

Here we go again with calling every single crime film in existence “noir”

[@mattclayer6541]

@@tarman2752 Whatever it is. Its a great and underrated film.

[@ericslee1980]

This is the Shawshank Redemption of mob movies. It's that good.

[@natalieps2387]

I think what ebert is trying to say a bromance. Not sure if that was a phrase. The 90s had fantastic films. Pacino loses another oscar he should have won.

[@eargasm1072]

Fuhgeddabout it Fuhgeddabout it Fuhgeddabout it fuck fuck fuck fuck....this movie has fantastic insighful dialogue great writing lol

[@Badtown1988]

This movie always gets overlooked when people talk about great crime/mob/gangster flicks, but it’s on par with the best of them.

[@aaronstark5060]

1:26, I think you mean that he wants Donnie to “fuhgetabout” Lefty.

[@D0ug1997]

This movie came out the day I was born

[@bloodtimemaximusfullthrott226]

Radiohead97 damn...

[@Trifelivin]

I miss this

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

That's Paul Giamatti as one of the feds, right?

[@bshaun]

Aye

[@LiveINtheGood53]

before he hit it "BIG!"

[@simonboccanegra3811]

And the other one is a pre-Coens Tim Blake Nelson. Good talent spotting in this.

[@jbjjones767]

What made Donnie Brasco so good is that it's a true story and Michael Madsen is portraying the the biggest mobster that was out on the streets at the time and they still made it despite that.

[@bloodtimemaximusfullthrott226]

JBJ JONES ay what time? The 70’s? Ya, not when the movie came out

[@jbjjones767]

@@bloodtimemaximusfullthrott226 it really happened from 1977-1981 but the Michael Madsen character was based on Joe Massino who was the boss of the Bonnono family and was running the family when the movie came out. He was the most powerful person out on the streets and he watched a movie about himself being showed as a killer. That took balls to make this picture

[@Gutts31]

@@jbjjones767 Incorrect - this was the real Sonny Black. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Napolitano

[@waynej2608]

Madsen was excellent in this. As was Al and Depp. Great cast, film. Siskel and Ebert definitely got this one right.

[@jbjjones767]

@@Gutts31The characters were scrambled for the movie. Dominick Napolitano was Sonny Black in real life in the movie he was portrayed in the Lefty Ruggerio character Michael Madsen who played Sonny Black was based on Joe Massino. In the movie why wasn't Sonny sent for at the end when he was in real life and how come In the movie Lefty was sent for but in real life he died in jail

[@smartyjonez5470]

Gene Siskel never had the makings of a varsity movie reviewer...shineboxes ...

[@guyincognito5706]

Smarty Jonez Have I told you I spent 20 years in the can?

[@janellekirkland3023]

I liked this movie.. Tough guys doing bad things ... Creepy 😎

[@bloodtimemaximusfullthrott226]

Janelle Kirkland huh?

[@nio5844]

good actor lol you mean great actor & one of the greatest actors ever

[@blackjackthompson1017]

What the hell happened to Johnny Depp? He went from being in movies with Pacino and Fear and Loathing to doing the same old Pirates and Tim Burton movies.

[@DeanStrickson]

Red Divinity LOL! Yeah, sure. Get your mom to fill out your meds prescription at CVS. I’m sure Depp’s choices have nothing to do with the hundreds of millions he’s raked in.

[@waynej2608]

Depp is a really good actor. I get tired of his pirate films, and a few other roles he took, but Donnie Brasco shows what he's capable of. This one, Ed Wood, Arizona Dream, Fear and Loathing, Black Mass, etc really prove he's got the chops. And his new film, The Professor, looks promising. Hopefully, a return to form.

[@waynej2608]

@hydrate your soul No, he isn't!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Most likely, Depp has selected more commerical projects in recent years because of the money he owes.

[@eargasm1072]

Married a crazy bitch who is ruining his life thats what

[@hermanblume275]

Fuhgeddabout it...

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

They should have never made this movie this should have been a series the movie doesn't do just at all great movie though should have been a series like The Sopranos I hope one day they'll do something like that

[@sixfoursoul2538]

Sorry I didnt like this movie that much... The real story was more interesting

[@mrheal420]

This movie was fucking horrible

[@kdohertygizbur]

LOL - I like your bravado !!- You are very wrong about this movie, but You certainly sum up ur feelings

[@DixiePokerAce]

To enjoy this movie you have to accept it for what it is. Sure, it was about the mob but more importantly it was about the relationship between the characters played by Pacino and Depp. I don't think it was great as strictly a movie about the mob but I do think the portrayal of the complicated relationship was done pretty well.

[@tinnedtuna8242]

They were wrong about this one. It sucked and has aged terribly.

[@Bigalrev]

wrong.

[@kil-0976]

No, You suck.

[@UltimateNinja-fe6yh]

Wrong

[@waynej2608]

You have yer taste, in yer ass!

[@Rcalanis37]

You my friend are a dumbski