Shameless wannabe Scorcese

Rating: 2/10 (1 December 2014)

Was this one directed by Scorcese? My first question, which was answered pretty quickly by the next of my questions: Was it instead a shameless imitation of all things Scorcese? Including the repeated drawn-out, starting from a far-away point, closeups, and camera follows, which happened every other scene segue, and the dated rock n' roll fed into the soundtrack. Also, THE ACTING WAS HORRIBLE IN THIS MOVIE! Everyone just half-ass mumbled their way through the unintelligible script with bad accents and every cliché imaginable! I get it... America steps back and takes a look at itself in all its evil glory. TOPIC DONE TO DEATH! I only gave it 2 stars instead of one because an effort was made in wardrobe and cast. Although... if I were one of the actors in this movie I'd hide my head in shame somewhere. No effort was made to turn the actors into actual people living a story! I hated all of them and had no sympathy even for Bale who could have saved this one. All I saw was Jennifer Lawrence, Christian Bale, and the rest dressed up in retro and mumbling for the duration. What the hell happened to this movie and why did it fail so awfully? Maybe the director was too intimidated by the A-listers and didn't have the guts to direct them and just left them to mutter and mumble through the whole thing all by their lonesomes. Awful!