Looking back

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2017)

I saw this movie 20 years after its initial release. Yes, I know, that is late. But it gave me the opportunity to look at it from a perspective where movie styles have changed. Did it stand the test of time? It is safe to say that this movie more or less concluded the typical mafia movie era, movies with overactive swearing gangster-types, Italian lingo, violence, extortion, addiction. I must say, watching this film gave me the feeling that I had seen it all before. This is a template movie, a template for the style, a template for the characters, a template for the violence, templates for practically everything. As a result everybody is behaving one-dimensional, behaving as expected, no character development. Joe Pesci is really a caricature of himself, Robert De Niro is flat. Sharon Stone her part is at times interesting to watch. All in all, this movie gets 6 out of 10 from me, mainly because the pace is okay.