Unfinished, disapointing, poorly edited dud.

Rating: 4/10 (16 January 2003)

Wow, is this really a Scorsese film? Bad editing, inane dialogue and major continuity errors mar the first 20mins so much that it is hard to even try and get caught up in the plot. It doesn't help that it is an inane revenge plot coupled with an unrealistic love story.
I hope the rumours of the studio hacking this to pieces are true as I cannot imagine Scorsese making a mess like this. The film only really gets interesting when the wider political machinations of the time are shown, but then you feel that the smaller DiCaprio/Diaz/Lewis plot just gets in the way of what is happening behind them.
It gets a 4, rather than a 2, for Lewis' undoubtedly great performance.