A Sleeper

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2002)

Most heavily TV advertised movies need that extra push. This one needs a bulldozer in front of it. Impossible to believe characters, story, settings, and buffoons. Silly me - about 2/3 of the way through I started to accept it for what Scorsese must have intended - pure camp in the vein of 'Natural Born Killers', or his version of 'Cape Fear'. Many of the viewers seemed to be New York transplants to Hawaii and were there to catch a glimpse of home. They left disappointed and sleepy-eyed.
Anyway, about 2/3 of the way through, I started to laugh at the hilarious lines of D. D.-Lewis for comic relief from the wandering, boring plot. A couple of other viewers picked up the same tact and after that we had a good time. I am often wrong, but I bet the financiers take a bath on this one.
I could have made a better movie about the gangs on my sixth grade playground.