Every boring Scorsese cliché

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2013)

JFT, this movie has every boring Martin Scorsese cliché. It's all about how terrible Italian gangsters are, but somehow they retain a chivalric nobility that makes them fundamentally noble.
Joe Pesce delivers his one-note role, the only thing he has ever played. A cheap gangster who for some reason commands respect that you would not expect from a five-foot two-inch loser. He was much better as the clichéd role in "My Cousin Vinny." In another (better, shorter) Scorsese movie, "Goodfellas," he would have been pretty good if he had been 30 years younger. But it was like watching my mother play Scarlett O'Hara.
Every single scene is an argument. That gets tedious after a while. Alan King and Don Rickles are miscast in dramatic roles. This was made when Robert DiNiro was already always playing a clichéd version of himself. Sharon Stone tries hard, but her role is not well written. Is she good? Is she evil? Why does she pretty much disappear from the middle third of the movie and spend the last third screaming? There are some Scorsese movies that are actually OK, but this is not one of them.