needed more time in the cutting room

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2002)

I was captivated for the first hour, became bored during the second, and was praying for it to be over during the last. There definitely are great scenes (I loved the subtitled phone conversation) and some brilliant shots (especially in the casino), but how did they think they had enough here to entertain an audience for three hours?
This movie should have been 90 minutes long, two hours tops. The second half consists almost entirely of DeNiro and Stone tediously screaming at each other; by the end of it, I wanted to kill both of them myself.