Give me a directors cut.

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 2003)

Day-Lewis is remarkable, Diaz is wooden,mediocre and LEO cant act his way out of a wet paper bag. When Bill talks about pulling his eye out and sending it to his 'GREAT' enemy, Leo cowers away in the corner. The fact is he cant even hold a scene, is prone to outbursts of inane non-subtlety and was only cast in the role to attract the 'TITANIC' audience, thus the picture getting green lit. Weinstein's chopped it to pieces, Broadbent disappears and reappears into this woefull ,muddled and wholly narrative: The farce looks beautiful . Day lewis is brilliant , but the piece feels like a latter day David Lean Film( Ryans Daughter, Passage to India ?). Perhaps the Directors cut will be better(running at 3 1/2 hours + ) and should be released on DVD in six months or so. I think its safe to say that Scorsese is past his best( Mean Streets,Taxi Driver,King of Comedy,Age of Innocence) now and like Woody Allen and his fellow movie brats ( Coppola,De Palma,Freidkin,Lucas,Schrader,Ashby) the Innovative,brilliant films from these directors are Firmly in the seventies.