Brutally Profane

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2005)

Can you say the "f-word??"
They can here - 353 times, according to Entertainment Weekly. This movie, as few others, will assault your senses and make you numb by the time it's over.
Constant bickering, yelling, and Sharon Stone's out-of-control character the last hour will have you uttering a few expletives yourself after this Martin Scorcese sleaze-fest mercifully ends.
As bad a character as Stone plays, the all-time champion profaner is - no surprise - the one played by Joe Pecsi, who must use the f-word every other sentence. Robert De Niro comes across as a choir boy compared to these other two jokers.
The sad thing is, this could have been a decent movie, if Scorcese wasn't just so preoccupied with being so verbally degenerate (see "Goodfellas," "Raging Bull," etc). If the film had been cut down 45 minutes from 3 hours (too much of it dwells on the marital problems involving Stone) and cut back on the profanity, you might have had an interesting crime story with some very colorful cinematography and good narration. However, Scorcese can't seem to make a crime film without all the excess.
"Brutal" might be a good word to describe this movie. It's too much for anyone above trailer trash morals to endure.