Doesn't deserve all the credit it gets

Rating: 6/10 (4 April 2007)

Not bad, but definitely not a great movie. For a movie that is supposed to be a drama, this had a lot of over the top action sequences. DiCaprio's character's accent was not believable, and Connelly's character altogether could have been cut from the film. Felt like the film was lecturing us for being bad people, as if the moviegoer was the one actually cutting off the hands of innocents. If the entire story had centered around DiCaprio's character, it would have been much better, and the movie would have benefited from a bit of subtlety to get its more tragic messages across, instead of coming across as a preachy film about evil greedy westerners.